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Magnetic crystalline-symmetry-protected axion electrodynamics and field-tunable unpinned Dirac cones in EuIn2As2
arXiv
  • Simon X. M. Riberolles, Ames Laboratory
  • Thais V. Trevisan, Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory
  • Brinda Kuthanazhi, Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory
  • T. W. Heitman, University of Missouri Research Reactor
  • F. Ye, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  • David C. Johnston, Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory
  • Sergey L. Bud’ko, Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory
  • D. H. Ryan, McGill University
  • Paul C. Canfield, Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory
  • Andreas Kreyssig, Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory
  • A. Vishwanath, Harvard University
  • Robert J. McQueeney, Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory
  • Lin-Lin Wang, Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory
  • Peter P. Orth, Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory
  • Benjamin G. Ueland, Ames Laboratory
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Article
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Submitted Manuscript
Publication Date
1-1-2020
Abstract

Knowledge of magnetic symmetry is vital for exploiting nontrivial surface states of magnetic topological materials. EuIn2As2 is an excellent example, as it is predicted to have collinear antiferromagnetic order where the magnetic moment direction determines either a topological-crystalline-insulator phase supporting axion electrodynamics or a higher-order-topological-insulator phase with chiral hinge states. Here, we use neutron diffraction, symmetry analysis, and density functional theory results to demonstrate that EuIn2As2 actually exhibits low-symmetry helical antiferromagnetic order which makes it a stoichiometric magnetic topological-crystalline axion insulator protected by the combination of a 180∘ rotation and time-reversal symmetries: C2×T=2′. Surfaces protected by 2′ are expected to have an exotic gapless Dirac cone which is unpinned to specific crystal momenta. All other surfaces have gapped Dirac cones and exhibit half-integer quantum anomalous Hall conductivity. We predict that the direction of a modest applied magnetic field of H≈1 to 2 T can tune between gapless and gapped surface states.

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This is a pre-print of the article Riberolles, S. X. M., T. V. Trevisan, B. Kuthanazhi, T. W. Heitmann, F. Ye, D. C. Johnston, S. L. Bud'ko, D. H. Ryan, P. C. Canfield, A. Kreyssig, A. Vishwanath, R. J. McQueeney, L. L. Wang, P. P. Orth, and B. G. Ueland. "Magnetic crystalline-symmetry-protected axion electrodynamics and field-tunable unpinned Dirac cones in EuIn2As2" arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.12758 (2020). Posted with permission.

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Simon X. M. Riberolles, Thais V. Trevisan, Brinda Kuthanazhi, T. W. Heitman, et al.. "Magnetic crystalline-symmetry-protected axion electrodynamics and field-tunable unpinned Dirac cones in EuIn2As2" arXiv (2020)
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