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Chiral magnetic chemical bonds in molecular states of impurities in Weyl semimetals

We demonstrate that chirality of the electron scattering in Weyl semimetals leads to the formation of magnetic chemical bonds for molecular states of a pair of impurities. The effect is associated with the presence of time-reversal symmetry breaking terms in the Hamiltonian which drive a crossover f...

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Autores principales: Marques, Y., Mizobata, W. N., Oliveira, R. S., de Souza, M., Figueira, M. S., Shelykh, I. A., Seridonio, A. C.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6560129/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31186465
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-44842-8
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author Marques, Y.
Mizobata, W. N.
Oliveira, R. S.
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Figueira, M. S.
Shelykh, I. A.
Seridonio, A. C.
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description We demonstrate that chirality of the electron scattering in Weyl semimetals leads to the formation of magnetic chemical bonds for molecular states of a pair of impurities. The effect is associated with the presence of time-reversal symmetry breaking terms in the Hamiltonian which drive a crossover from s- to p-wave scattering. The profiles of the corresponding molecular orbitals and their spin polarizations are defined by the relative orientation of the lines connecting two Weyl nodes and two impurities. The magnetic character of the molecular orbitals and their tunability open the way for using doped Weyl semimetals for spintronics and realization of qubits.
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spelling pubmed-65601292019-06-19 Chiral magnetic chemical bonds in molecular states of impurities in Weyl semimetals Marques, Y. Mizobata, W. N. Oliveira, R. S. de Souza, M. Figueira, M. S. Shelykh, I. A. Seridonio, A. C. Sci Rep Article We demonstrate that chirality of the electron scattering in Weyl semimetals leads to the formation of magnetic chemical bonds for molecular states of a pair of impurities. The effect is associated with the presence of time-reversal symmetry breaking terms in the Hamiltonian which drive a crossover from s- to p-wave scattering. The profiles of the corresponding molecular orbitals and their spin polarizations are defined by the relative orientation of the lines connecting two Weyl nodes and two impurities. The magnetic character of the molecular orbitals and their tunability open the way for using doped Weyl semimetals for spintronics and realization of qubits. Nature Publishing Group UK 2019-06-11 /pmc/articles/PMC6560129/ /pubmed/31186465 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-44842-8 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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