Nature Communications (Sep 2016)

Weyl magnons in breathing pyrochlore antiferromagnets

  • Fei-Ye Li,
  • Yao-Dong Li,
  • Yong Baek Kim,
  • Leon Balents,
  • Yue Yu,
  • Gang Chen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12691
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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It was recently demonstrated that particular materials with non-trivial electronic band structure support quasiparticle excitations described by the relativistic Weyl equation. Here, the authors explore how an analogous magnonic band structure may exist in breathing pyrochlore antiferromagnets.