Citation: Qiu, Gang, et al. "Manipulating Topological Phases in Magnetic Topological Insulators." Nanomaterials 13.19 (2023): 2655.
Web: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/13/19/2655
Tags: Hardware, Physical, Topological-insulators, Materials-applications
This paper gives a survey of the field of magnetic topological insulators, with a focus on their coherent manipulation for technological purposes. As a reminder, a magnetic topological insulator is a topological insulator whose topological phase is not induced by an external magnetic field. Instead, the phase is induced by specialized spin-orbit coupling terms within the material. Many of the proposals for applications of topological phases of matter come from magnetic topological insulators, because they don't require a strong external magnetic field. However, these materials are still exotic and we have yet to master their manipulation. Other good surveys of the field exist, including
> Tokura, Yoshinori, Kenji Yasuda, and Atsushi Tsukazaki. "Magnetic topological insulators." Nature Reviews Physics 1.2 (2019): 126-143.and
> Bernevig, B. Andrei, Claudia Felser, and Haim Beidenkopf. "Progress and prospects in magnetic topological materials." Nature 603.7899 (2022): 41-51.