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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 110, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.116802
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- NSF [DMR-10-05838]
- Division Of Materials Research
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1005838] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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We propose searching for Chern insulators by depositing atomic layers of elements with large spin-orbit coupling (e.g., Bi) on the surface of a magnetic insulator. We argue that such systems will typically have isolated surface bands with nonzero Chern numbers. If these overlap in energy, a metallic surface with large anomalous Hall conductivity will result; if not, a Chern-insulator state will typically occur. Thus, our search strategy reduces to looking for examples having the Fermi level in a global gap extending across the entire Brillouin zone. We verify this search strategy and identify several candidate systems by using first-principles calculations to compute the Chern number and anomalous Hall conductivity of a large number of such systems on MnTe, MnSe, and EuS surfaces. Our search reveals several promising Chern insulators with gaps of up to 140 meV. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.116802
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