Signatures of Weyl Fermion Annihilation in a Correlated Kagome Magnet.


Journal

Physical review letters
ISSN: 1079-7114
Titre abrégé: Phys Rev Lett
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 0401141

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
17 Dec 2021
Historique:
received: 02 09 2021
accepted: 12 11 2021
entrez: 14 1 2022
pubmed: 15 1 2022
medline: 15 1 2022
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

The manipulation of topological states in quantum matter is an essential pursuit of fundamental physics and next-generation quantum technology. Here we report the magnetic manipulation of Weyl fermions in the kagome spin-orbit semimetal Co_{3}Sn_{2}S_{2}, observed by high-resolution photoemission spectroscopy. We demonstrate the exchange collapse of spin-orbit-gapped ferromagnetic Weyl loops into paramagnetic Dirac loops under suppression of the magnetic order. We further observe that topological Fermi arcs disappear in the paramagnetic phase, suggesting the annihilation of exchange-split Weyl points. Our findings indicate that magnetic exchange collapse naturally drives Weyl fermion annihilation, opening new opportunities for engineering topology under correlated order parameters.

Identifiants

pubmed: 35029418
doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.256403
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

256403

Auteurs

Ilya Belopolski (I)

Laboratory for Topological Quantum Matter and Spectroscopy (B7), Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA.
RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS), Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan.

Tyler A Cochran (TA)

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

Xiaoxiong Liu (X)

Department of Physics, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland.

Zi-Jia Cheng (ZJ)

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

Xian P Yang (XP)

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

Zurab Guguchia (Z)

Laboratory for Topological Quantum Matter and Spectroscopy (B7), Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA.
Laboratory for Muon Spin Spectroscopy, Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen PSI, Switzerland.

Stepan S Tsirkin (SS)

Department of Physics, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland.

Jia-Xin Yin (JX)

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

Praveen Vir (P)

Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Nöthnitzer Straße 40, 01187 Dresden, Germany.

Gohil S Thakur (GS)

Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Nöthnitzer Straße 40, 01187 Dresden, Germany.
Faculty of Chemistry and Food Chemistry, Technische Universitat, 01069 Dresden, Germany.

Songtian S Zhang (SS)

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

Junyi Zhang (J)

Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA.

Konstantine Kaznatcheev (K)

National Synchrotron Light Source II, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA.

Guangming Cheng (G)

Princeton Institute for Science and Technology of Materials, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA.

Guoqing Chang (G)

Division of Physics and Applied Physics, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, 21 Nanyang Link, 637371 Singapore, Singapore.

Daniel Multer (D)

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

Nana Shumiya (N)

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

Maksim Litskevich (M)

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

Elio Vescovo (E)

National Synchrotron Light Source II, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA.

Timur K Kim (TK)

Diamond Light Source, Didcot OX11 0DE, United Kingdom.

Cephise Cacho (C)

Diamond Light Source, Didcot OX11 0DE, United Kingdom.

Nan Yao (N)

Princeton Institute for Science and Technology of Materials, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA.

Claudia Felser (C)

Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Nöthnitzer Straße 40, 01187 Dresden, Germany.

Titus Neupert (T)

Department of Physics, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland.

M Zahid Hasan (MZ)

Laboratory for Topological Quantum Matter and Spectroscopy (B7), Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA.
Princeton Institute for Science and Technology of Materials, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA.
Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.

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