Magnetic order induced chiral phonons in a ferromagnetic Weyl semimetal

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Autori principali: Che, Mengqian, Liang, Jinxuan, Cui, Yunpeng, Li, Hao, Lu, Bingru, Sang, Wenbo, Li, Xiang, Dong, Xuebin, Zhao, Le, Zhang, Shuai, Sun, Tao, Jiang, Wanjun, Liu, Enke, Jin, Feng, Zhang, Tiantian, Yang, Luyi
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author Che, Mengqian
Liang, Jinxuan
Cui, Yunpeng
Li, Hao
Lu, Bingru
Sang, Wenbo
Li, Xiang
Dong, Xuebin
Zhao, Le
Zhang, Shuai
Sun, Tao
Jiang, Wanjun
Liu, Enke
Jin, Feng
Zhang, Tiantian
Yang, Luyi
author_facet Che, Mengqian
Liang, Jinxuan
Cui, Yunpeng
Li, Hao
Lu, Bingru
Sang, Wenbo
Li, Xiang
Dong, Xuebin
Zhao, Le
Zhang, Shuai
Sun, Tao
Jiang, Wanjun
Liu, Enke
Jin, Feng
Zhang, Tiantian
Yang, Luyi
contents Chiral phonons are vibrational modes in a crystal that possess a well-defined handedness or chirality, typically found in materials that lack inversion symmetry. Here we report the discovery of chiral phonon modes in the kagome ferromagnetic Weyl semimetal Co3Sn2S2, a material that preserves inversion symmetry but breaks time-reversal symmetry. Using helicity-resolved magneto-Raman spectroscopy, we observe the spontaneous splitting of the doubly degenerate in-plane Eg modes into two distinct chiral phonon modes of opposite helicity when the sample is zero-field cooled below the Curie temperature, in the absence of an external magnetic field. As we sweep the out-of-plane magnetic field, this Eg phonon splitting exhibits a well-defined hysteresis loop directly correlated with the material's magnetization. The observed spontaneous splitting reaches up to 1.27 cm-1 at low temperatures, progressively diminishes with increasing temperature, and completely vanishes near the Curie temperature. Our findings highlight the role of the magnetic order in inducing chiral phonons, paving the way for novel methods to manipulate chiral phonons through magnetization and vice versa. Additionally, our work introduces new possibilities for controlling chiral Weyl fermions using chiral phonons.
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spellingShingle Magnetic order induced chiral phonons in a ferromagnetic Weyl semimetal
Che, Mengqian
Liang, Jinxuan
Cui, Yunpeng
Li, Hao
Lu, Bingru
Sang, Wenbo
Li, Xiang
Dong, Xuebin
Zhao, Le
Zhang, Shuai
Sun, Tao
Jiang, Wanjun
Liu, Enke
Jin, Feng
Zhang, Tiantian
Yang, Luyi
Materials Science
Chiral phonons are vibrational modes in a crystal that possess a well-defined handedness or chirality, typically found in materials that lack inversion symmetry. Here we report the discovery of chiral phonon modes in the kagome ferromagnetic Weyl semimetal Co3Sn2S2, a material that preserves inversion symmetry but breaks time-reversal symmetry. Using helicity-resolved magneto-Raman spectroscopy, we observe the spontaneous splitting of the doubly degenerate in-plane Eg modes into two distinct chiral phonon modes of opposite helicity when the sample is zero-field cooled below the Curie temperature, in the absence of an external magnetic field. As we sweep the out-of-plane magnetic field, this Eg phonon splitting exhibits a well-defined hysteresis loop directly correlated with the material's magnetization. The observed spontaneous splitting reaches up to 1.27 cm-1 at low temperatures, progressively diminishes with increasing temperature, and completely vanishes near the Curie temperature. Our findings highlight the role of the magnetic order in inducing chiral phonons, paving the way for novel methods to manipulate chiral phonons through magnetization and vice versa. Additionally, our work introduces new possibilities for controlling chiral Weyl fermions using chiral phonons.
title Magnetic order induced chiral phonons in a ferromagnetic Weyl semimetal
topic Materials Science
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.03754