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Observation of Weyl fermions in a magnetic non-centrosymmetric crystal

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arxiv 2006.14713 v1 pith:52GIXM3W submitted 2020-06-25 cond-mat.mtrl-sci cond-mat.mes-hall

Observation of Weyl fermions in a magnetic non-centrosymmetric crystal

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keywords magneticnon-centrosymmetrictopologicalweylanomalousbandbulkelectronic
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Characterized by the absence of inversion symmetry, non-centrosymmetric materials are of great interest because they exhibit ferroelectricity, second harmonic generation, emergent Weyl fermions, and other fascinating phenomena. It is expected that if time-reversal symmetry is also broken, additional magneto-electric effects can emerge from the interplay between magnetism and electronic order. Here we report topological conducting properties in the non-centrosymmetric magnet PrAlGe. By photoemission spectroscopy, we observe an arc parametrizing surface-localized states---a topological arc. Using the bulk-boundary correspondence, we conclude that these arcs correspond to projected topological charges of $\pm{1}$ in the surface Brillouin zone, demonstrating the presence of magnetic Weyl quasiparticles in bulk. We further observe a large anomalous Hall response, arising from diverging bulk Berry curvature fields associated with the magnetic Weyl band structure. Our results demonstrate a topological phase with robust electronic surface states and anomalous transport in a non-centrosymmetric magnet for the first time, providing a novel material platform to study the interplay between magnetic order, band topology and transport.

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