Nature Communications (Apr 2022)

Interlayer magnetophononic coupling in MnBi2Te4

  • Hari Padmanabhan,
  • Maxwell Poore,
  • Peter K. Kim,
  • Nathan Z. Koocher,
  • Vladimir A. Stoica,
  • Danilo Puggioni,
  • Huaiyu (Hugo) Wang,
  • Xiaozhe Shen,
  • Alexander H. Reid,
  • Mingqiang Gu,
  • Maxwell Wetherington,
  • Seng Huat Lee,
  • Richard D. Schaller,
  • Zhiqiang Mao,
  • Aaron M. Lindenberg,
  • Xijie Wang,
  • James M. Rondinelli,
  • Richard D. Averitt,
  • Venkatraman Gopalan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29545-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Tunable coupling between magnetism and the lattice is important for on-demand manipulation of magnetic phases. Here, the authors demonstrate that lattice vibrations can coherently modulate the interlayer magnetic exchange coupling in the magnetic topological insulator MnBi2Te4.