Spin fluctuation induced Weyl semimetal state in the paramagnetic phase of EuCd$_2$As$_2$

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العنوان: Spin fluctuation induced Weyl semimetal state in the paramagnetic phase of EuCd$_2$As$_2$
المؤلفون: Ma, J. -Z., Nie, S. M., Yi, C. J., Jandke, J., Shang, T., Yao, M. Y., Naamneh, M., Yan, L. Q., Sun, Y., Chikina, A., Strocov, V. N., Medarde, M., Song, M., Xiong, Y. -M., Xu, G., Wulfhekel, W., Mesot, J., Reticcioli, M., Franchini, C., Mudry, C., Müller, M., Shi, Y. G., Qian, T., Ding, H., Shi, M.
المصدر: Sciences Advances. 5, eaaw4718 (2019)
سنة النشر: 2019
المجموعة: Condensed Matter
مصطلحات موضوعية: Condensed Matter - Strongly Correlated Electrons
الوصف: Weyl fermions as emergent quasiparticles can arise in Weyl semimetals (WSMs) in which the energy bands are nondegenerate, resulting from inversion or time-reversal symmetry breaking. Nevertheless, experimental evidence for magnetically induced WSMs is scarce. Here, using photoemission spectroscopy, we observe that the degeneracy of Bloch bands is already lifted in the paramagnetic phase of EuCd$_2$As$_2$. We attribute this effect to the itinerant electrons experiencing quasistatic and quasi-long-range ferromagnetic fluctuations. Moreover, the spin nondegenerate band structure harbors a pair of ideal Weyl nodes near the Fermi level. Hence, we show that long-range magnetic order and the spontaneous breaking of time-reversal symmetry are not an essential requirement for WSM states in centrosymmetric systems, and that WSM states can emerge in a wider range of condensed-matter systems than previously thought.
Comment: 34 pages,12 figures
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aaw4718
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/1907.05956
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.1907.05956
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv