Nature Communications (Sep 2020)

Spin-orbit quantum impurity in a topological magnet

  • Jia-Xin Yin,
  • Nana Shumiya,
  • Yuxiao Jiang,
  • Huibin Zhou,
  • Gennevieve Macam,
  • Hano Omar Mohammad Sura,
  • Songtian S. Zhang,
  • Zi-Jia Cheng,
  • Zurab Guguchia,
  • Yangmu Li,
  • Qi Wang,
  • Maksim Litskevich,
  • Ilya Belopolski,
  • Xian P. Yang,
  • Tyler A. Cochran,
  • Guoqing Chang,
  • Qi Zhang,
  • Zhi-Quan Huang,
  • Feng-Chuan Chuang,
  • Hsin Lin,
  • Hechang Lei,
  • Brian M. Andersen,
  • Ziqiang Wang,
  • Shuang Jia,
  • M. Zahid Hasan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18111-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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Single-atomic impurities may induce novel quantum state, but they are unexplored in topological magnets. Here, the authors report spin-down polarized bound states which further interact with neighboring states to form spin-orbit split quantized orbitals in a topological magnet Co3Sn2S2.