We have investigated magneto-transport properties in a single crystal of pyrochore-type Nd2Ir2O7. The metallic conduction is observed on the antiferromagnetic domain walls of the all-in all-out type Ir-5d moment ordered insulating bulk state, that can be finely controlled by external magnetic field along [111]. On the other hand, an applied field along [001] induces the bulk phase transition from insulator to semimetal as a consequence of the field-induced modification of Nd-4f and Ir-5d moment configurations. A theoretical calculation consistently describing the experimentally observed features suggests a variety of exotic topological states as functions of electron correlation and Ir-5d moment orders which can be finely tuned by choice of rare-earth ion and by magnetic field, respectively.
@article{arxiv.1506.07336,
title = {Magnetic field-induced insulator-semimetal transition in a pyrochlore Nd2Ir2O7},
author = {K. Ueda and J. Fujioka and B. -J. Yang and J. Shiogai and A. Tsukazaki and S. Nakamura and S. Awaji and N. Nagaosa and Y. Tokura},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.07336},
year = {2016}
}