Exotic phenomena in topological Weyl line magnets

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Abstract

Topological electronic phases in intrinsic magnets are of current interest. One common magnetic topological object is the Weyl line, a two-fold band degeneracy along a closed curve in bulk momentum space. Weyl lines arise naturally in the absence of time-reversal symmetry (absent in magnets) and in the presence of mirror symmetry (common in many space groups). I will present the observation of Weyl lines by ARPES in the room temperature magnet Co2MnGa [1]. On the surface of the magnet, I observe drumhead surface states, pinpointing the bulk-boundary correspondence and suggesting a Berry phase topological invariant associated with the Weyl line. Next, the intrinsic Berry curvature contribution to the anomalous Hall response, determined from quantum transport, agrees with a prediction of the Weyl line Berry curvature based on ARPES and first-principles calculations [1]. I will comment on composite topological structures arising from pinning and linking of different Weyl lines. Lastly, I will discuss future directions in Co2MnGa and other topological Weyl line magnets.

[1] I. Belopolski*, K. Manna*, D. S. Sanchez*, G. Chang* et al. Science 365, 1278 (2019).

*Work at Princeton was supported by the US DOE under the Basic Energy Sciences programme (Grant #: DOE/BES DE-FG-02-05ER46200).

Presenters

  • Ilya Belopolski

    • Laboratory for Topological Quantum Matter and Spectroscopy, Department of Physics, Princeton University
    • Princeton University

Authors

  • Ilya Belopolski

    • Laboratory for Topological Quantum Matter and Spectroscopy, Department of Physics, Princeton University
    • Princeton University
  • Guoqing Chang

    • Laboratory for Topological Quantum Matter and Spectroscopy, Department of Physics, Princeton University
    • Princeton University
  • Tyler Cochran

    • Laboratory for Topological Quantum Matter and Spectroscopy, Department of Physics, Princeton University
    • Princeton University
    • Physics, Princeton University
  • Jiaxin Yin

    • Laboratory for Topological Quantum Matter and Spectroscopy, Department of Physics, Princeton University
    • Princeton University
    • Physics, Princeton University
  • Songtian Sonia Zhang

    • Princeton University
    • Physics, Princeton University
  • Zijia Cheng

    • Princeton University
    • Tsinghua University
  • Xian Yang

    • Princeton University
  • Nana Shumiya

    • Princeton University
    • Physics, Princeton University
  • Daniel Multer

    • Princeton University
  • Maksim Litskevich

    • Princeton University
  • Zahid Hasan

    • Laboratory for Topological Quantum Matter and Spectroscopy, Department of Physics, Princeton University
    • Princeton University
    • Physics, Princeton University