GdAlSi: An antiferromagnetic topological Weyl semimetal with non-relativistic spin splitting
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| author | Nag, Jadupati Das, Bishal Bhowal, Sayantika Nishioka, Yukimi Bandyopadhyay, Barnabha Sarker, Saugata Kumar, Shiv Kuroda, Kenta Gopalan, Venkatraman Kimura, Akio Suresh, K. G. Alam, Aftab |
| author_facet | Nag, Jadupati Das, Bishal Bhowal, Sayantika Nishioka, Yukimi Bandyopadhyay, Barnabha Sarker, Saugata Kumar, Shiv Kuroda, Kenta Gopalan, Venkatraman Kimura, Akio Suresh, K. G. Alam, Aftab |
| contents | Spintronics has emerged as a viable alternative to traditional electronics based technologies in the past few decades. While on one hand, the discovery of topological phases of matter with protected spin-polarized states has opened up exciting prospects, recent revelation of intriguing non-relativistic spin splitting in collinear antiferromagnetic materials with unique symmetries facilitate a wide possibility of realizing both these features simultaneously. In this work, we report the co-existence of these two intriguing properties within a single material: GdAlSi. It crystallizes in a body-centered tetragonal structure with a non-centrosymmetric space group $I4_{1}md$ ($109$), which is confirmed using detailed structural analysis through X-ray diffraction (XRD) and optical second harmonic generation (SHG) measurements. The magnetization data indicates AFM ordering with an ordering temperature ($T_N$) $\sim$ 32 K. Ab-initio calculations reveal GdAlSi to be a collinear antiferromagnetic Weyl semimetal with an unconventional, momentum-dependent spin splitting, also referred to as altermagnet. Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy measurements on GdAlSi single crystals subsequently confirm the presence of Fermi arcs, a distinctive hallmark of Weyl semimetals. Electric and magnetic multipole analysis provides a deeper understanding of the symmetry-mediated, momentum-dependent spin splitting, which has strictly non-relativistic origin. To the best of our knowledge, such co-existence of unconventional antiferromagnetic order and non-trivial topology is unprecedented and has never been observed before in a single material, rendering GdAlSi a special and promising candidate material. We propose a device harnessing these features, poised to enable practical and efficient topotronic applications. |
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| spellingShingle | GdAlSi: An antiferromagnetic topological Weyl semimetal with non-relativistic spin splitting Nag, Jadupati Das, Bishal Bhowal, Sayantika Nishioka, Yukimi Bandyopadhyay, Barnabha Sarker, Saugata Kumar, Shiv Kuroda, Kenta Gopalan, Venkatraman Kimura, Akio Suresh, K. G. Alam, Aftab Strongly Correlated Electrons Materials Science Other Condensed Matter Spintronics has emerged as a viable alternative to traditional electronics based technologies in the past few decades. While on one hand, the discovery of topological phases of matter with protected spin-polarized states has opened up exciting prospects, recent revelation of intriguing non-relativistic spin splitting in collinear antiferromagnetic materials with unique symmetries facilitate a wide possibility of realizing both these features simultaneously. In this work, we report the co-existence of these two intriguing properties within a single material: GdAlSi. It crystallizes in a body-centered tetragonal structure with a non-centrosymmetric space group $I4_{1}md$ ($109$), which is confirmed using detailed structural analysis through X-ray diffraction (XRD) and optical second harmonic generation (SHG) measurements. The magnetization data indicates AFM ordering with an ordering temperature ($T_N$) $\sim$ 32 K. Ab-initio calculations reveal GdAlSi to be a collinear antiferromagnetic Weyl semimetal with an unconventional, momentum-dependent spin splitting, also referred to as altermagnet. Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy measurements on GdAlSi single crystals subsequently confirm the presence of Fermi arcs, a distinctive hallmark of Weyl semimetals. Electric and magnetic multipole analysis provides a deeper understanding of the symmetry-mediated, momentum-dependent spin splitting, which has strictly non-relativistic origin. To the best of our knowledge, such co-existence of unconventional antiferromagnetic order and non-trivial topology is unprecedented and has never been observed before in a single material, rendering GdAlSi a special and promising candidate material. We propose a device harnessing these features, poised to enable practical and efficient topotronic applications. |
| title | GdAlSi: An antiferromagnetic topological Weyl semimetal with non-relativistic spin splitting |
| topic | Strongly Correlated Electrons Materials Science Other Condensed Matter |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.11980 |