학술논문

Meta-magnetism of weakly-coupled antiferromagnetic topological insulators
Document Type
Working Paper
Source
Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 197201 (2020)
Subject
Condensed Matter - Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Condensed Matter - Materials Science
Language
Abstract
The magnetic properties of the van der Waals magnetic topological insulators MnBi$_2$Te$_4$ and MnBi$_4$Te$_7$ are investigated by magneto-transport measurements. We evidence that the relative strength of the inter-layer exchange coupling J to the uniaxial anisotropy K controls a transition from an A-type antiferromagnetic order to a ferromagnetic-like metamagnetic state. A bi-layer Stoner-Wohlfarth model allows us to describe this evolution, as well as the typical angular dependence of specific signatures, such as the spin-flop transition of the uniaxial antiferromagnet and the switching field of the metamagnet.
Comment: 22 pages, 8 figures; typos corrected, references added