Nature Communications (Aug 2018)

Spontaneous Hall effect in the Weyl semimetal candidate of all-in all-out pyrochlore iridate

  • Kentaro Ueda,
  • Ryoma Kaneko,
  • Hiroaki Ishizuka,
  • Jun Fujioka,
  • Naoto Nagaosa,
  • Yoshinori Tokura

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05530-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Material with both topological state and magnetic order remains rare. Here, Ueda et al. observe a sizable spontaneous Hall conductivity with minimal magnetization at a few Kelvin below the all-in-all-out magnetic ordering temperature in the predicted magnetic Weyl semimetal R 2Ir2O7.