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烧绿石Eu2Ir2O7中Weyl半金属态的光学证据

Optical evidence for a Weyl semimetal state in pyrochlore Eu2Ir2O7

Andrei B. Sushkov, Johannes B. Hofmann, Gregory S. Jenkins, Jun Ishikawa, Satoru Nakatsuji, Sankar Das Sarma, H. Dennis Drew

摘要:

一个Weyl半金属态的非简并狄拉克锥对在三维最近预测发生在反铁磁状态的烧绿石铱酸盐。在这里,我们表明,太赫兹的光学电导率和温度依赖性的自由载流子在烧绿石Eu 2 Ir 2 O 7匹配的预测外尔半金属,并提出新的狄拉克液体行为。带间光学电导率在低频率下连续消失,表示半金属。T_N = 110 K时的金属-绝缘体转变表现在Drude谱权上,在金属相中Drude谱权与温度无关,在有序相中Drude谱权平滑减小。在T_N以下,自由载流子质量随温度的变化与狄拉克材料的理论预测符合得很好。数据得出费米速度v_F=4x10^7 cm/s,对数重整化标度Lambda_L=600 K,并且需要与残留的无意掺杂相关的费米温度T_F=100 K,以解释低温光学响应和直流电阻率。

英文摘要:

A Weyl semimetallic state with pairs of nondegenerate Dirac cones in three dimensions was recently predicted to occur in the antiferromagnetic state of the pyrochlore iridates. Here, we show that the THz optical conductivity and temperature dependence of free carriers in the pyrochlore Eu2Ir2O7 match the predictions for a Weyl semimetal and suggest novel Dirac liquid behavior. The interband optical conductivity vanishes continuously at low frequencies signifying a semimetal. The metal-insulator transition at T_N = 110 K is manifested in the Drude spectral weight, which is independent of temperature in the metallic phase, and which decreases smoothly in the ordered phase. The temperature dependence of the free carrier weight below T_N is in good agreement with theoretical predictions for a Dirac material. The data yield a Fermi velocity v_F=4x10^7 cm/s, a logarithmic renormalization scale Lambda_L=600 K, and require a Fermi temperature of T_F=100 K associated with residual unintentional doping to account for the low temperature optical response and dc resistivity.

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