Observation of Weyl fermions in a magnetic non-centrosymmetric crystal.


Journal

Nature communications
ISSN: 2041-1723
Titre abrégé: Nat Commun
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101528555

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
03 Jul 2020
Historique:
received: 22 02 2019
accepted: 19 03 2020
entrez: 5 7 2020
pubmed: 6 7 2020
medline: 6 7 2020
Statut: epublish

Résumé

The absence of inversion symmetry in non-centrosymmetric materials has a fundamental role in the emergence of a vast number of fascinating phenomena, like ferroelectricity, second harmonic generation, and Weyl fermions. The removal of time-reversal symmetry in such systems further extends the variety of observable magneto-electric and topological effects. Here we report the striking topological properties in the non-centrosymmetric spin-orbit magnet PrAlGe by combining spectroscopy and transport measurements. By photoemission spectroscopy below the Curie temperature, we observe topological Fermi arcs that correspond to projected topological charges of ±1 in the surface Brillouin zone. In the bulk, we observe the linear energy-dispersion of the Weyl fermions. We further observe a large anomalous Hall response in our magneto-transport measurements, which is understood to arise from diverging bulk Berry curvature fields associated with the Weyl band structure. These results establish a novel Weyl semimetal phase in magnetic non-centrosymmetric PrAlGe.

Identifiants

pubmed: 32620859
doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-16879-1
pii: 10.1038/s41467-020-16879-1
pmc: PMC7335064
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Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

3356

Commentaires et corrections

Type : ErratumIn

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Auteurs

Daniel S Sanchez (DS)

Laboratory for Topological Quantum Matter and Advanced Spectroscopy (B7), Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 08544, USA.

Guoqing Chang (G)

Laboratory for Topological Quantum Matter and Advanced Spectroscopy (B7), Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 08544, USA.

Ilya Belopolski (I)

Laboratory for Topological Quantum Matter and Advanced Spectroscopy (B7), Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 08544, USA.

Hong Lu (H)

International Center for Quantum Materials, School of Physics, Peking University, Peking, China.

Jia-Xin Yin (JX)

Laboratory for Topological Quantum Matter and Advanced Spectroscopy (B7), Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 08544, USA.

Nasser Alidoust (N)

Laboratory for Topological Quantum Matter and Advanced Spectroscopy (B7), Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 08544, USA.
Rigetti Computing, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA.

Xitong Xu (X)

International Center for Quantum Materials, School of Physics, Peking University, Peking, China.

Tyler A Cochran (TA)

Laboratory for Topological Quantum Matter and Advanced Spectroscopy (B7), Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 08544, USA.

Xiao Zhang (X)

International Center for Quantum Materials, School of Physics, Peking University, Peking, China.

Yi Bian (Y)

International Center for Quantum Materials, School of Physics, Peking University, Peking, China.

Songtian S Zhang (SS)

Laboratory for Topological Quantum Matter and Advanced Spectroscopy (B7), Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 08544, USA.

Yi-Yuan Liu (YY)

International Center for Quantum Materials, School of Physics, Peking University, Peking, China.

Jie Ma (J)

Key Laboratory of Artificial Structures and Quantum Control, School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.

Guang Bian (G)

Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA.

Hsin Lin (H)

Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, 11529, Taiwan.

Su-Yang Xu (SY)

Laboratory for Topological Quantum Matter and Advanced Spectroscopy (B7), Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 08544, USA.

Shuang Jia (S)

International Center for Quantum Materials, School of Physics, Peking University, Peking, China.
Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, 100871, Beijing, China.

M Zahid Hasan (MZ)

Laboratory for Topological Quantum Matter and Advanced Spectroscopy (B7), Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 08544, USA. mzhasan@princeton.edu.
Princeton Institute for Science and Technology of Materials, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 08544, USA. mzhasan@princeton.edu.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA. mzhasan@princeton.edu.

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