期刊名称：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
印刷版ISSN：0027-8424
电子版ISSN：1091-6490
出版年度：2019
卷号：116
期号：18
页码：8803-8808
DOI：10.1073/pnas.1819489116
出版社：The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
摘要：Pyrochlore iridates have provided a plethora of novel phenomena owing to the combination of topology and correlation. Among them, much attention has been paid to P r 2 I r 2 O 7 , as it is known as a Luttinger semimetal characterized by quadratic band touching at the Brillouin zone center, suggesting that the topology of its electronic states can be tuned by a moderate lattice strain and external magnetic field. Here, we report that our epitaxial P r 2 I r 2 O 7 thin films grown by solid-state epitaxy exhibit a spontaneous Hall effect that persists up to 50 K without having spontaneous magnetization within our experimental accuracy. This indicates that the system breaks the time reversal symmetry at a temperature scale that is too high for the magnetism to be due to Pr 4f moments and must be related to magnetic order of the iridium 5d electrons. Moreover, our analysis finds that the chiral anomaly induces the negative contribution to the magnetoresistance only when a magnetic field and the electric current are parallel to each other. Our results indicate that the strained part of the thin film forms a magnetic Weyl semimetal state.
关键词：magnetic Weyl semimetal ; spontaneous Hall effect ; Luttinger semimetal
