Bulk quantum Hall effect of spin-valley-coupled Dirac fermions in a polar antiferromagnet BaMnSb$_2$
Abstract
Unconventional features of relativistic Dirac/Weyl quasi-particles in topological materials are most evidently manifested in the 2D quantum Hall effect (QHE), whose variety is further enriched by their spin and/or valley polarization. Although its extension to three dimensions has been long-sought and inspired theoretical proposals, material candidates have been lacking. Here we have discovered valley-contrasting spin-polarized Dirac fermions in a multilayer form in bulk antiferromagnet BaMnSb, where the out-of-plane Zeeman-type spin splitting is induced by the in-plane inversion symmetry breaking and spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in the distorted Sb square net. Furthermore, we have observed well-defined quantized Hall plateaus together with vanishing interlayer conductivity at low temperatures as a hallmark of the half-integer QHE in a bulk form. The Hall conductance of each layer is found to be nearly quantized to with being the Landau index, which is consistent with two spin-polarized Dirac valleys protected by the strong spin-valley coupling.
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@article{arxiv.2001.08683,
title = {Bulk quantum Hall effect of spin-valley-coupled Dirac fermions in a polar antiferromagnet BaMnSb$_2$},
author = {H. Sakai and H. Fujimura and S. Sakuragi and M. Ochi and R. Kurihara and A. Miyake and M. Tokunaga and T. Kojima and D. Hashizume and T. Muro and K. Kuroda and T. Kondo and T. Kida and M. Hagiwara and K. Kuroki and M. Kondo and K. Tsuruda and H. Murakawa and N. Hanasaki},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.08683},
year = {2020}
}
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14 pages, 4 figures. Accepted in Phys. Rev. B (Rapid Communication)