Nature Communications (Sep 2021)

Quantum anomalous Hall edge channels survive up to the Curie temperature

  • Kajetan M. Fijalkowski,
  • Nan Liu,
  • Pankaj Mandal,
  • Steffen Schreyeck,
  • Karl Brunner,
  • Charles Gould,
  • Laurens W. Molenkamp

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25912-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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The quantum anomalous Hall effect has so far been limited to temperature of the order of 20 mK. Here, Fijalkowski et al. report the existence of chiral edge channels up to the Curie temperature of bulk ferromagnetism of the magnetic topological insulator with a multi-terminal Corbino geometry.