Electronic correlations and flattened band in magnetic Weyl semimetal candidate Co3Sn2S2
Abstract
The interplay between electronic correlations and topological protection may offer a rich avenue for discovering emergent quantum phenomena in condensed matter. However, electronic correlations have so far been little investigated in Weyl semimetals (WSMs) by experiments. Here, we report a combined optical spectroscopy and theoretical calculation study on the strength and effect of electronic correlations in a magnet Co3Sn2S2. The electronic kinetic energy estimated from our optical data is about half of that obtained from single-particle ab initio calculations in the ferromagnetic ground state, which indicates intermediate-strength electronic correlations in this system. Furthermore, comparing the energy and side-slope ratios between the interband-transition peaks at high energies in the experimental and single-particle-calculation-derived optical conductivity spectra with the bandwidth-renormalization factors obtained by many-body calculations enables us to estimate the Coulomb-interaction strength (U ~ 4 eV) in Co3Sn2S2. Besides, a sharp experimental optical conductivity peak at low energy, which is absent in the single-particle-calculation-derived spectrum but is consistent with the optical conductivity peaks obtained by many-body calculations with U ~ 4 eV, indicates that an electronic band connecting the two Weyl cones is flattened by electronic correlations and emerges near the Fermi energy in Co3Sn2S2. Our work paves the way for exploring flat-band-generatedmore »
- Authors:
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- Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing (China)
- Univ. of Zurich (Switzerland); Southwest Univ. of Science and Technology (China)
- Renmin Univ. of China, Beijing (China)
- Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- Sun Yat-Sen Univ., Guangzhou (China)
- Huazhong Univ. of Science and Technology, Wuhan (China)
- Songshan Lake Materials Lab., Guangdong (China); Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing (China)
- Univ. of Zurich (Switzerland)
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing (China); Songshan Lake Materials Lab. (China)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1659691
- Report Number(s):
- BNL-216353-2020-JAAM
Journal ID: ISSN 2041-1723; TRN: US2203467
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0012704
- Resource Type:
- Journal Article: Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Nature Communications
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 11; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2041-1723
- Publisher:
- Nature Publishing Group
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY
Citation Formats
Xu, Yueshan, Zhao, Jianzhou, Yi, Changjiang, Wang, Qi, Yin, Qiangwei, Wang, Yilin, Hu, Xiaolei, Wang, Luyang, Liu, Enke, Xu, Gang, Lu, Ling, Soluyanov, Alexey A., Lei, Hechang, Shi, Youguo, Luo, Jianlin, and Chen, Zhi-Guo. Electronic correlations and flattened band in magnetic Weyl semimetal candidate Co3Sn2S2. United States: N. p., 2020.
Web. doi:10.1038/s41467-020-17234-0.
Xu, Yueshan, Zhao, Jianzhou, Yi, Changjiang, Wang, Qi, Yin, Qiangwei, Wang, Yilin, Hu, Xiaolei, Wang, Luyang, Liu, Enke, Xu, Gang, Lu, Ling, Soluyanov, Alexey A., Lei, Hechang, Shi, Youguo, Luo, Jianlin, & Chen, Zhi-Guo. Electronic correlations and flattened band in magnetic Weyl semimetal candidate Co3Sn2S2. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17234-0
Xu, Yueshan, Zhao, Jianzhou, Yi, Changjiang, Wang, Qi, Yin, Qiangwei, Wang, Yilin, Hu, Xiaolei, Wang, Luyang, Liu, Enke, Xu, Gang, Lu, Ling, Soluyanov, Alexey A., Lei, Hechang, Shi, Youguo, Luo, Jianlin, and Chen, Zhi-Guo. 2020.
"Electronic correlations and flattened band in magnetic Weyl semimetal candidate Co3Sn2S2". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17234-0. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1659691.
@article{osti_1659691,
title = {Electronic correlations and flattened band in magnetic Weyl semimetal candidate Co3Sn2S2},
author = {Xu, Yueshan and Zhao, Jianzhou and Yi, Changjiang and Wang, Qi and Yin, Qiangwei and Wang, Yilin and Hu, Xiaolei and Wang, Luyang and Liu, Enke and Xu, Gang and Lu, Ling and Soluyanov, Alexey A. and Lei, Hechang and Shi, Youguo and Luo, Jianlin and Chen, Zhi-Guo},
abstractNote = {The interplay between electronic correlations and topological protection may offer a rich avenue for discovering emergent quantum phenomena in condensed matter. However, electronic correlations have so far been little investigated in Weyl semimetals (WSMs) by experiments. Here, we report a combined optical spectroscopy and theoretical calculation study on the strength and effect of electronic correlations in a magnet Co3Sn2S2. The electronic kinetic energy estimated from our optical data is about half of that obtained from single-particle ab initio calculations in the ferromagnetic ground state, which indicates intermediate-strength electronic correlations in this system. Furthermore, comparing the energy and side-slope ratios between the interband-transition peaks at high energies in the experimental and single-particle-calculation-derived optical conductivity spectra with the bandwidth-renormalization factors obtained by many-body calculations enables us to estimate the Coulomb-interaction strength (U ~ 4 eV) in Co3Sn2S2. Besides, a sharp experimental optical conductivity peak at low energy, which is absent in the single-particle-calculation-derived spectrum but is consistent with the optical conductivity peaks obtained by many-body calculations with U ~ 4 eV, indicates that an electronic band connecting the two Weyl cones is flattened by electronic correlations and emerges near the Fermi energy in Co3Sn2S2. Our work paves the way for exploring flat-band-generated quantum phenomena in WSMs.},
doi = {10.1038/s41467-020-17234-0},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1659691},
journal = {Nature Communications},
issn = {2041-1723},
number = 1,
volume = 11,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Aug 10 00:00:00 EDT 2020},
month = {Mon Aug 10 00:00:00 EDT 2020}
}
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