Photo-induced Floquet Weyl magnons in noncollinear antiferromagnets
- Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, 31 Caroline St. N., Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 2Y5 (Canada)
We study periodically driven insulating noncollinear stacked kagome antiferromagnets with a conventional symmetry-protected three-dimensional (3D) in-plane 120° spin structure, with either positive or negative vector chirality. We show that the symmetry protection of the in-plane 120° spin structure can be broken in the presence of an off-resonant circularly or linearly polarized electric field propagating parallel to the in-plane 120° spin structure (say along the x direction). Consequently, topological Floquet Weyl magnon nodes with opposite chirality are photoinduced along the k{sub x} momentum direction. They manifest as the monopoles of the photoinduced Berry curvature. We also show that the system exhibits a photoinduced magnon thermal Hall effect for circularly polarized electric field. Furthermore, we show that the photoinduced chiral spin structure is a canted 3D in-plane 120° spin structure, which was recently observed in the equilibrium noncollinear antiferromagnetic Weyl semimetals Mn{sub 3}Sn/Ge. Our result not only paves the way towards the experimental realization of Weyl magnons and photoinduced thermal Hall effects, but also provides a powerful mechanism for manipulating the intrinsic properties of 3D topological antiferromagnets.
- OSTI ID:
- 22852319
- Journal Information:
- Annals of Physics, Vol. 406; Other Information: © 2019 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0003-4916
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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