  Magnetic topological insulators (TIs) with nontrivial topological electronic
structure and broken time-reversal symmetry exhibit various exotic topological
quantum phenomena. The realization of such exotic phenomena at high temperature
is one of central topics in this area. We reveal that MnBi6Te10 is a magnetic
TI with an antiferromagnetic ground state below 10.8 K whose nontrivial
topology is manifested by Dirac-like surface states. The ferromagnetic axion
insulator state with Z4 = 2 emerges once spins polarized at field as low as 0.1
T, accompanied with saturated anomalous Hall resistivity up to 10 K. Such a
ferromagnetic state is preserved even external field down to zero at 2 K.
Theoretical calculations indicate that the few-layer ferromagnetic MnBi6Te10 is
also topologically nontrivial with a non-zero Chern number. Angle-resolved
photoemission spectroscopy experiments further reveal three types of Dirac
surface states arising from different terminations on the cleavage surfaces,
one of which has insulating behavior with an energy gap of ~ 28 meV at the
Dirac point. These outstanding features suggest that MnBi6Te10 is a promising
system to realize various topological quantum effects at zero field and high
temperature.
