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

Authors :
Sanchez DS
Chang G
Belopolski I
Lu H
Yin JX
Alidoust N
Xu X
Cochran TA
Zhang X
Bian Y
Zhang SS
Liu YY
Ma J
Bian G
Lin H
Xu SY
Jia S
Hasan MZ
Source :
Nature communications [Nat Commun] 2020 Jul 03; Vol. 11 (1), pp. 3356. Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 Jul 03.
Publication Year :
2020

Abstract

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.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
2041-1723
Volume :
11
Issue :
1
Database :
MEDLINE
Journal :
Nature communications
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
32620859
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16879-1