Université de Fribourg

Infrared study of the multiband low-energy excitations of the topological antiferromagnet MnBi2Te4

Xu, Bing ; Zhang, Y. ; Alizade, E. H. ; Jahangirli, Z. A. ; Lyzwa, Fryderyk ; Sheveleva, Evgeniia ; Marsik, Premysl ; Li, Y. K. ; Yao, Y. G. ; Wang, Z. W. ; Shen, B. ; Dai, Y. M. ; Kataev, V. ; Otrokov, M. M. ; Chulkov, E. V. ; Mamedov, N. T. ; Bernhard, Christian

In: Physical Review B, 2021, vol. 103, no. 12, p. L121103

With infrared spectroscopy, we studied the bulk electronic properties of the topological antiferromagnet MnBi2Te4 with TN ≃ 25 K. With the support of band-structure calculations, we assign the intra- and interband excitations and determine the band gap of Eg ≈ 0.17 eV. We also obtain evidence for two types of conduction bands with light and very heavy carriers. The multiband free-carrier...