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Magnetoconductance signatures of chiral domain-wall bound states in magnetic topological insulators
Recent magnetoconductance measurements performed on magnetic topological
insulator candidates have revealed butterfly-shaped hysteresis. This hysteresis
has been attributed to the formation of gapless chiral domain-wall bound states
during a magnetic field sweep. We treat this phenomenon theoretically,
providing a link between microscopic magnetization dynamics and butterfly
hysteresis in magnetoconductance. Further, we illustrate how a spatially
resolved conductance measurement can probe the most striking feature of the
domain-wall bound states: their chirality. This work establishes a regime where
a definitive link between butterfly hysteresis in longitudinal
magneto-conductance and domain-wall bound states can be made. This analysis
provides an important tool for the identification of magnetic topological
insulators.Comment: v2: Final published version; 7 pages, 3 figure
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