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Time-reversal symmetry breaking type-II Weyl state in YbMnBi(2)

Spectroscopic detection of Dirac and Weyl fermions in real materials is vital for both, promising applications and fundamental bridge between high-energy and condensed-matter physics. While the presence of Dirac and noncentrosymmetric Weyl fermions is well established in many materials, the magnetic...

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Autores principales: Borisenko, Sergey, Evtushinsky, Daniil, Gibson, Quinn, Yaresko, Alexander, Koepernik, Klaus, Kim, Timur, Ali, Mazhar, van den Brink, Jeroen, Hoesch, Moritz, Fedorov, Alexander, Haubold, Erik, Kushnirenko, Yevhen, Soldatov, Ivan, Schäfer, Rudolf, Cava, Robert J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6668437/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31366883
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11393-5
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Sumario:Spectroscopic detection of Dirac and Weyl fermions in real materials is vital for both, promising applications and fundamental bridge between high-energy and condensed-matter physics. While the presence of Dirac and noncentrosymmetric Weyl fermions is well established in many materials, the magnetic Weyl semimetals still escape direct experimental detection. In order to find a time-reversal symmetry breaking Weyl state we design two materials and present here experimental and theoretical evidence of realization of such a state in one of them, YbMnBi(2). We model the time-reversal symmetry breaking observed by magnetization and magneto-optical microscopy measurements by canted antiferromagnetism and find a number of Weyl points. Using angle-resolved photoemission, we directly observe two pairs of Weyl points connected by the Fermi arcs. Our results not only provide a fundamental link between the two areas of physics, but also demonstrate the practical way to design novel materials with exotic properties.