Synthesis of a semimetallic Weyl ferromagnet with point Fermi surface

• Main Authors: Belopolski, Ilya, Watanabe, Ryota, Sato, Yuki, Yoshimi, Ryutaro, Kawamura, Minoru, Nagahama, Soma, Zhao, Yilin, Shao, Sen, Jin, Yuanjun, Kato, Yoshihiro, Okamura, Yoshihiro, Zhang, Xiao-Xiao, Fujishiro, Yukako, Takahashi, Youtarou, Hirschberger, Max, Tsukazaki, Atsushi, Takahashi, Kei S., Chiu, Ching-Kai, Chang, Guoqing, Kawasaki, Masashi, Nagaosa, Naoto, Tokura, Yoshinori
• Other Authors: School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2025
• Subjects: Physics; Quantum Theory; Tellurium
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/182720
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Quantum materials governed by emergent topological fermions have become a cornerstone of physics. Dirac fermions in graphene form the basis for moiré quantum matter and Dirac fermions in magnetic topological insulators enabled the discovery of the quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect1-3. By contrast, there are few materials whose electromagnetic response is dominated by emergent Weyl fermions4-6. Nearly all known Weyl materials are overwhelmingly metallic and are largely governed by irrelevant, conventional electrons. Here we theoretically predict and experimentally observe a semimetallic Weyl ferromagnet in van der Waals (Cr,Bi)2Te3. In transport, we find a record bulk anomalous Hall angle of greater than 0.5 along with non-metallic conductivity, a regime that is strongly distinct from conventional ferromagnets. Together with symmetry analysis, our data suggest a semimetallic Fermi surface composed of two Weyl points, with a giant separation of more than 75% of the linear dimension of the bulk Brillouin zone, and no other electronic states. Using state-of-the-art crystal-synthesis techniques, we widely tune the electronic structure, allowing us to annihilate the Weyl state and visualize a unique topological phase diagram exhibiting broad Chern insulating, Weyl semimetallic and magnetic semiconducting regions. Our observation of a semimetallic Weyl ferromagnet offers an avenue towards new correlated states and nonlinear phenomena, as well as zero-magnetic-field Weyl spintronic and optical devices.