Evidence of magnetism-induced topological protection in the axion insulator candidate EuSn2P2

Gian Marco Pierantozzi; Alessandro De Vita; Chiara Bigi; Xin Gui; Hung Ju Tien; Debashis Mondal; Federico Mazzola; Jun Fujii; Ivana Vobornik; Giovanni Vinai; Alessandro Sala; Cristina Africh; Tien Lin Lee; Giorgio Rossi; Tay Rong Chang; Weiwei Xie; Robert J. Cava; Giancarlo Panaccione

doi:10.1073/pnas.2116575119

Evidence of magnetism-induced topological protection in the axion insulator candidate EuSn2P2

Gian Marco Pierantozzi, Alessandro De Vita, Chiara Bigi, Xin Gui, Hung Ju Tien, Debashis Mondal, Federico Mazzola, Jun Fujii, Ivana Vobornik, Giovanni Vinai, Alessandro Sala, Cristina Africh, Tien Lin Lee, Giorgio Rossi, Tay Rong Chang, Weiwei Xie, Robert J. Cava, Giancarlo Panaccione

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Abstract

We unravel the interplay of topological properties and the layered (anti)ferromagnetic ordering in EuSn2P2, using spin and chemical selective electron and X-ray spectroscopies supported by firstprinciple calculations. We reveal the presence of in-plane longrange ferromagnetic order triggering topological invariants and resulting in the multiple protection of topological Dirac states. We provide clear evidence that layer-dependent spin-momentum locking coexists with ferromagnetism in this material, a cohabitation that promotes EuSn2P2 as a prime candidate axion insulator for topological antiferromagnetic spintronics applications.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	e2116575119
Journal	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Volume	119
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2116575119
State	Published - Jan 25 2022

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ARPES
Axion insulator
Magnetism
Spin polarization
Topological surface states

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Pierantozzi, G. M., De Vita, A., Bigi, C., Gui, X., Tien, H. J., Mondal, D., Mazzola, F., Fujii, J., Vobornik, I., Vinai, G., Sala, A., Africh, C., Lee, T. L., Rossi, G., Chang, T. R., Xie, W., Cava, R. J., & Panaccione, G. (2022). Evidence of magnetism-induced topological protection in the axion insulator candidate EuSn2P2. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119(4), Article e2116575119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2116575119

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