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Eu $_2$ Ir $_2$ O $_7$薄膜中的磁性Weyl半金属相

A magnetic Weyl semimetallic phase in thin films of Eu$_2$Ir$_2$O$_7$

Xiaoran Liu, Shiang Fang, Yixing Fu, Wenbo Ge, Mikhail Kareev, Jong-Woo Kim, Yongseong Choi, Evguenia Karapetrova, Qinghua Zhang, Lin Gu, Eun-Sang Choi, Fangdi … 展开作者

Xiaoran Liu, Shiang Fang, Yixing Fu, Wenbo Ge, Mikhail Kareev, Jong-Woo Kim, Yongseong Choi, Evguenia Karapetrova, Qinghua Zhang, Lin Gu, Eun-Sang Choi, Fangdi Wen, Justin H. Wilson, Gilberto Fabbris, Philip J. Ryan, John Freeland, Daniel Haskel, Weida Wu, Jedediah H. Pixley, Jak Chakhalian

摘要:

电子相互作用和强自旋轨道耦合之间的相互作用有望创造出大量迷人的量子物质相关拓扑态。特别令人感兴趣的是磁性Weyl半金属最初提出的烧绿石铱酸盐,这是唯一的预期,以揭示其拓扑性质的薄膜形式。然而,到目前为止,由于缺乏可用的单晶和可用薄膜的质量不足,这些奇异相的直接实验演示仍然难以捉摸。在这里,我们报告的发现长期寻求磁性外尔半金属相(111)取向的Eu $_2$ Ir $_2$ O $_7$高品质外延薄膜。拓扑磁性状态显示出一种固有的异常霍尔效应,具有巨大的介电常数,但净磁化消失,出现在一个特殊的反铁磁有序的磁相的开始之下。所观察到的异常霍尔电导率产生于非零Berry曲率所发出的外尔节点对附近的费米能级,作为源和池的Berry通量,激活的破立方晶体对称性的顶部和底部终端的薄膜。

英文摘要:

The interplay between electronic interactions and strong spin-orbit coupling is expected to create a plethora of fascinating correlated topological states of quantum matter. Of particular interest are magnetic Weyl semimetals originally proposed in the pyrochlore iridates, which are only expected to reveal their topological nature in thin film form. To date, however, direct experimental demonstrations of these exotic phases remain elusive, due to the lack of usable single crystals and the insufficient quality of available films. Here, we report on the discovery of the long-sought magnetic Weyl semi-metallic phase in (111)-oriented Eu$_2$Ir$_2$O$_7$ high-quality epitaxial thin films. The topological magnetic state shows an intrinsic anomalous Hall effect with colossal coercivity but vanishing net magnetization, which emerges below the onset of a peculiar magnetic phase with all-in-all-out antiferromagnetic ordering. The observed anomalous Hall conductivity arises from the non-zero Berry curvature emanated by Weyl node pairs near the Fermi level that act as sources and sinks of Berry flux, activated by broken cubic crystal symmetry at the top and bottom terminations of the thin film.

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