Mn rich MnSb2Te4 A topological insulator with magnetic gap closing at high Curie temperatures of 45 50 K

Ferromagnetic topological insulators exhibit the quantum anomalous Hall effect, which is potentially useful for high precision metrology, edge channel spintronics, and topological qubits. The stable 2 state of Mn enables intrinsic magnetic topological insulators. MnBi2Te4 is, however, antiferromagnetic with 25 K N el temperature and is strongly n doped. In this work, p type MnSb2Te4, previously considered topologically trivial, is shown to be a ferromagnetic topological insulator for a few percent Mn excess. i Ferromagnetic hysteresis with record Curie temperature of 45 50 K, ii out of plane magnetic anisotropy, iii a 2D Dirac cone with the Dirac point close to the Fermi level, iv out of plane spin polarization as revealed by photoelectron spectroscopy, and v a magnetically induced bandgap closing at the Curie temperature, demonstrated by scanning tunneling spectroscopy STS , are shown. Moreover, a critical exponent of the magnetization amp; 946; amp; 8776; 1 is found, indicating the vicinity of a quantum critical point. Ab initio calculations reveal that Mn Sb site exchange provides the ferromagnetic interlayer coupling and the slight excess of Mn nearly doubles the Curie temperature. Remaining deviations from the ferromagnetic order open the inverted bulk bandgap and render MnSb2Te4 a robust topological insulator and new benchmark for magnetic topological insulator