Nature Communications (Jul 2020)
Handedness-dependent quasiparticle interference in the two enantiomers of the topological chiral semimetal PdGa
- Paolo Sessi,
- Feng-Ren Fan,
- Felix Küster,
- Kaustuv Manna,
- Niels B. M. Schröter,
- Jing-Rong Ji,
- Samuel Stolz,
- Jonas A. Krieger,
- Ding Pei,
- Timur K. Kim,
- Pavel Dudin,
- Cephise Cacho,
- Roland Widmer,
- Horst Borrmann,
- Wujun Shi,
- Kai Chang,
- Yan Sun,
- Claudia Felser,
- Stuart S. P. Parkin
Affiliations
- Paolo Sessi
- Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics
- Feng-Ren Fan
- Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids
- Felix Küster
- Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics
- Kaustuv Manna
- Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids
- Niels B. M. Schröter
- Swiss Light Source, Paul Scherrer Institute
- Jing-Rong Ji
- Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics
- Samuel Stolz
- EMPA, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology
- Jonas A. Krieger
- Swiss Light Source, Paul Scherrer Institute
- Ding Pei
- Clarendon Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Oxford
- Timur K. Kim
- Diamond Light Source
- Pavel Dudin
- Diamond Light Source
- Cephise Cacho
- Diamond Light Source
- Roland Widmer
- EMPA, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology
- Horst Borrmann
- Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids
- Wujun Shi
- School of Physical Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University
- Kai Chang
- Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics
- Yan Sun
- Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids
- Claudia Felser
- Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids
- Stuart S. P. Parkin
- Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17261-x
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 11,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 7
Abstract
Direct visualization of chiral effects in topological chiral semimetals remains elusive. Here, Sessi et al. demonstrate that quasiparticle scattering at impurities in the two enantiomers of PdGa gives rise to handedness dependent quantum interference patterns.
