Cargando…

Observation of Weyl fermions in a magnetic non-centrosymmetric crystal

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 variet...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Sanchez, Daniel S., Chang, Guoqing, Belopolski, Ilya, Lu, Hong, Yin, Jia-Xin, Alidoust, Nasser, Xu, Xitong, Cochran, Tyler A., Zhang, Xiao, Bian, Yi, Zhang, Songtian S., Liu, Yi-Yuan, Ma, Jie, Bian, Guang, Lin, Hsin, Xu, Su-Yang, Jia, Shuang, Hasan, M. Zahid
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2020
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7335064/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32620859
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16879-1
Descripción
Sumario: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.