Published 2018 | Version v1
Journal article

Creating and Controlling Weyl Fermions, Nexus Points, and Nodal Lines in the Magnetic Anti-perovskite Eu3PbO

  • 1. Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart (Germany)
  • 2. ISIS Pulsed Neutron Facility, Didcot (United Kingdom)
  • 3. Department of Physics, The University of Tokyo (Japan)
  • 4. FMQ, Universität Stuttgart (Germany)

Description

Anti-perovskite materials A3EO, where A denotes an alkaline earth metal, while E stands for Pb or Sn, exhibit low-energy electronic properties that are described by three-dimensional Dirac fermions, which are gapped out by spin-orbit coupling. If A is replaced by the rare-earth element europium then magnetic order is expected due to the electron spin moment as confirmed by magnetization measurements. Neutron diffraction leads us to the conclusion that different magnetic phases appear. We studied the effect of magnetism on the electronic properties of Eu3PbO. From DFT calculations the resulting splitting has been extracted and implemented into a tight-binding model to capture the physics close to the Fermi energy. We present the creation of Weyl points, Nexus points, and nodal lines and give their topological invariants. For the different magnetic phases we derived the respective surface states and anomalous Hall responses.

Availability note (English)

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Verhandlungen der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft
Journal Issue
Berlin 2018 issue
Journal Page Range
[1 p.]
ISSN
0420-0195
CODEN
VDPEAZ

Conference

Title
DPG Spring meeting 2018 - Joint Meeting of the DPG and EPS Condensed Matter Divisions together with the Statistical and Nonlinear Physics Division of the EPS and the working groups Equal Opportunities (DPG), Industry and Business (DPG), Young DPG, Philosophy of Physics (DPG), EPS Young Minds, EPS History of Physics Group
Acronym
CMD27
Dates
11-16 Mar 2018
Place
Berlin (Germany)

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Notes
Session: TT 20.10 Mo 17:30; Also available as printed version: Verhandlungen der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft v. 53(3)