Nature Communications (Nov 2020)

Localized spin-orbit polaron in magnetic Weyl semimetal Co3Sn2S2

  • Yuqing Xing,
  • Jianlei Shen,
  • Hui Chen,
  • Li Huang,
  • Yuxiang Gao,
  • Qi Zheng,
  • Yu-Yang Zhang,
  • Geng Li,
  • Bin Hu,
  • Guojian Qian,
  • Lu Cao,
  • Xianli Zhang,
  • Peng Fan,
  • Ruisong Ma,
  • Qi Wang,
  • Qiangwei Yin,
  • Hechang Lei,
  • Wei Ji,
  • Shixuan Du,
  • Haitao Yang,
  • Wenhong Wang,
  • Chengmin Shen,
  • Xiao Lin,
  • Enke Liu,
  • Baogen Shen,
  • Ziqiang Wang,
  • Hong-Jun Gao

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19440-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Kagome lattice material Co3Sn2S2 is identified as a magnetic Weyl semimetal and its magnetic properties are less studied. Here, the authors observe localized spin-orbit polarons nucleated around single S-vacancies carrying a large diamagnetic orbital magnetism in Co3Sn2S2.