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轴子候选材料 EuIn$_2$As$_2$ 中具有持续拓扑霍尔效应的掺杂可调费米面

Doping-tunable Fermi surface with persistent topological Hall effect in axion candidate EuIn$_2$As$_2$

Jian Yan, Jianguo Si, Zhongzhu Jiang, Hanming Ma, Yoshiya Uwatoko, Bao-Tian Wang, Xuan Luo, Yuping Sun, Minoru Yamashita

AI总结:

该研究合成 Ca 掺杂 EuIn$_2$As$_2$ 单晶,证明等价 Ca 取代可缩小晶格、降低空穴密度并调控费米面,同时保留反铁磁结构与拓扑霍尔效应,为实现轴子绝缘态提供路径。

摘要:

稀土 Zintl 化合物 EuIn$_2$As$_2$ 在理论上已被认为是实现本征反铁磁(AFM)体相轴子绝缘体和高阶拓扑态的候选材料,为探索新颖拓扑输运现象提供了丰富平台。然而,由于 EuIn$_2$As$_2$ 受到高空穴掺杂,轴子态尚未实现。在此,我们合成了一系列高质量的 Ca 掺杂 EuIn2As2(Ca$_x$Eu$_{1-x}$In$_2$As$_2$,x = 0~0.25)单晶,以将费米能调控至空穴口袋之上。我们的霍尔测量表明,等价 Ca 取代通过缩小晶格间距降低了空穴载流子密度,这也得到了第一性原理计算的证实。我们进一步发现,尽管非磁性 Ca 取代降低了有效磁矩和 Néel 温度,但正如在原始 EuIn$_2$As$_2$ 中观察到的那样,Ca 掺杂样品中仍持续存在在 Néel 温度处具有局部极大值的磁化率温度依赖关系,以及源于有限实空间自旋手性的拓扑霍尔效应。这些结果表明,Ca 取代可在保持 AFM 磁结构的同时调控费米能,说明通过进一步 Ca 取代或可实现轴子绝缘态。

英文摘要:

Rare-earth Zintl compound EuIn$_2$As$_2$ has been theoretically recognized as a candidate for realizing an intrinsic antiferromagnetic (AFM) bulk axion insulator and a higher-order topological state, which provides a fertile platform to explore novel topological transport phenomena. However, the axion state has yet to be realized because EuIn$_2$As$_2$ is highly hole-doped. Here, we synthesized a series of high-quality Ca-doped EuIn2As2 (Ca$_x$Eu$_{1-x}$In$_2$As$_2$, x = 0 ~ 0.25) single crystals to tune the Fermi energy above the hole pocket. Our Hall measurements reveal that the isovalent Ca substitution decreases the hole carrier density by shrinking the lattice spacing, which is also confirmed by our first-principles calculations. We further find that both the temperature dependence of the magnetic susceptibility with a local maximum at the Néel temperature and the topological Hall effect originating from the finite real-space spin chirality persist in the Ca-doped samples as observed in the pristine EuIn$_2$As$_2$, despite that the nonmagnetic Ca substitution decreases the effective moment and the Néel temperature. These results show that the Ca substitution tunes the Fermi energy while keeping the AFM magnetic structure, suggesting that the axion insulating state may be realized by further Ca substitution.

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