Topological spiral magnetism in the Weyl semimetal SmAlSi
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| author | Gaudet, Xiaohan Yao Jonathan Verma, Rahul Graf, David E. Yang, Hung-Yu Bahrami, Faranak Zhang, Ruiqi Aczel, Adam A. Subedi, Sujan Torchinsky, Darius H. Sun, Jianwei Bansil, Arun Huang, Shin-Ming Singh, Bahadur Nikolic, Predrag Blaha, Peter Tafti, Fazel |
| author_facet | Gaudet, Xiaohan Yao Jonathan Verma, Rahul Graf, David E. Yang, Hung-Yu Bahrami, Faranak Zhang, Ruiqi Aczel, Adam A. Subedi, Sujan Torchinsky, Darius H. Sun, Jianwei Bansil, Arun Huang, Shin-Ming Singh, Bahadur Nikolic, Predrag Blaha, Peter Tafti, Fazel |
| contents | Weyl electrons are intensely studied due to novel charge transport phenomena such as chiral anomaly, Fermi arcs, and photogalvanic effect. Recent theoretical works suggest that Weyl electrons can also participate in magnetic interactions, and the Weyl-mediated indirect exchange coupling between local moments is proposed as a new mechanism of spiral magnetism that involves chiral electrons. Despite reports of incommensurate and non-collinear magnetic ordering in Weyl semimetals, an actual spiral order has remained hitherto undetected. Here, we present evidence of Weyl-mediated spiral magnetism in SmAlSi from neutron diffraction, transport, and thermodynamic data. We show that the spiral order in SmAlSi results from the nesting between topologically non-trivial Fermi pockets and weak magnetocrystalline anisotropy, unlike related materials (Ce,Pr,Nd)AlSi, where a strong anisotropy prevents the spins from freely rotating. We map the magnetic phase diagram of SmAlSi and reveal an A-phase where topological magnetic excitations may exist. This is corroborated by the observation of a topological Hall effect within the A-phase. |
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| spellingShingle | Topological spiral magnetism in the Weyl semimetal SmAlSi Gaudet, Xiaohan Yao Jonathan Verma, Rahul Graf, David E. Yang, Hung-Yu Bahrami, Faranak Zhang, Ruiqi Aczel, Adam A. Subedi, Sujan Torchinsky, Darius H. Sun, Jianwei Bansil, Arun Huang, Shin-Ming Singh, Bahadur Nikolic, Predrag Blaha, Peter Tafti, Fazel Materials Science Strongly Correlated Electrons Weyl electrons are intensely studied due to novel charge transport phenomena such as chiral anomaly, Fermi arcs, and photogalvanic effect. Recent theoretical works suggest that Weyl electrons can also participate in magnetic interactions, and the Weyl-mediated indirect exchange coupling between local moments is proposed as a new mechanism of spiral magnetism that involves chiral electrons. Despite reports of incommensurate and non-collinear magnetic ordering in Weyl semimetals, an actual spiral order has remained hitherto undetected. Here, we present evidence of Weyl-mediated spiral magnetism in SmAlSi from neutron diffraction, transport, and thermodynamic data. We show that the spiral order in SmAlSi results from the nesting between topologically non-trivial Fermi pockets and weak magnetocrystalline anisotropy, unlike related materials (Ce,Pr,Nd)AlSi, where a strong anisotropy prevents the spins from freely rotating. We map the magnetic phase diagram of SmAlSi and reveal an A-phase where topological magnetic excitations may exist. This is corroborated by the observation of a topological Hall effect within the A-phase. |
| title | Topological spiral magnetism in the Weyl semimetal SmAlSi |
| topic | Materials Science Strongly Correlated Electrons |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.05121 |