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磁有序诱导斜方晶系CuMnAs半金属单晶的对称性破缺

Magnetic order induces symmetry breaking in the single crystalline orthorhombic CuMnAs semimetal

Eve Emmanouilidou, Huibo Cao, Peizhe Tang, Xin Gui, Chaowei Hu, Bing Shen, Junyi Wu, Shou-Cheng Zhang, Weiwei Xie, Ni Ni

摘要:

最近,正交晶系的CuMnAs被认为是一种在费米能级附近存在拓扑费米子的磁性材料。本文报道了正交晶系Cu_(0.95)Mn_(0.98)As和Cu_(0.96)Mn_(0.96)As单晶的磁结构。Cu 0.95 Mn 0.96 As在320 K(k =(0.1,0,0))发生顺磁到无公度反铁磁(IC-AFM)的二阶相变,随后在230 K发生从IC-AFM到C-AFM的二阶相变。在C-AFM状态下,Mn自旋顺序平行于b轴,但与它们的最近邻反平行,易磁化轴沿b轴。这种磁序打破了Ry滑动和S2 z旋转对称性,这两个对称性分析的关键,导致在交叉点的有限带隙和无质量拓扑费米子的消失。然而,在该系统中仍然可以观察到非平凡拓扑结构诱导的自旋极化表面态和签名,这使得正交CuMnAs在反铁磁自旋电子学中具有前景。

英文摘要:

Recently, orthorhombic CuMnAs has been proposed to be a magnetic material where topological fermions exist around the Fermi level. Here we report the magnetic structure of the orthorhombic Cu0.95MnAs and Cu0.98Mn0.96As single crystals. While Cu0.95MnAs is a commensurate antiferromagnet (C-AFM) below 360 K with a propagation vector of k = 0, Cu0.98Mn0.96As undergoes a second-order paramagnetic to incommensurate antiferromagnetic (IC-AFM) phase transition at 320 K with k = (0.1,0,0), followed by a second-order IC-AFM to C-AFM phase transition at 230 K. In the C-AFM state, the Mn spins order parallel to the b-axis but antiparallel to their nearest-neighbors with the easy axis along the b axis. This magnetic order breaks Ry gliding and S2z rotational symmetries, the two crucial for symmetry analysis, resulting in finite band gaps at the crossing point and the disappearance of the massless topological fermions. However, the spin-polarized surface states and signature induced by non-trivial topology still can be observed in this system, which makes orthorhombic CuMnAs promising in antiferromagnetic spintronics.

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