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Field-dependent Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations in ferromagnetic Weyl semimetal Co3Sn2S2

Materials Science 2022-03-09 v1 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

We report a study of Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations in high quality single crystals of ferromagnetic Weyl semimetal Co3_3Sn2_2S2_2. The Fermi surfaces resolved in our experiments are three-dimensional and reflect an underlying trigonal crystallographic symmetry. Combined with density functional theoretical calculations, we identify that the majority of the Fermi surfaces in the system -- of both electron and hole nature -- arise from the strong energy dispersion of the (spin-orbit gapped) mirror-protected nodal rings. We observe that an in-plane magnetic field induces a continuous evolution of Fermi surfaces, in contrast to field perpendicular to the kagome lattice planes which has little effect. Viewed alongside the easy-axis anisotropy of the system, our observation reveals an evolution of the electronic structure of Co3_3Sn2_2S2_2 -- including the Weyl points -- with the ferromagnetic moment orientation. Through the case study of Co3_3Sn2_2S2_2, our results provide concrete experimental evidence of an anisotropic interplay via spin-orbit coupling between the magnetic degrees of freedom and electronic band singularities, which has long been expected in semimetallic and metallic magnetic topological systems.

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@article{arxiv.2203.04254,
  title  = {Field-dependent Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations in ferromagnetic Weyl semimetal Co3Sn2S2},
  author = {Linda Ye and Jorge I. Facio and Madhav P. Ghimire and Mun K. Chan and Jhih-Shih You and David C. Bell and Manuel Richter and Jeroen van den Brink and Joseph G. Checkelsky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.04254},
  year   = {2022}
}

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6 pages, 3 figures