TY - JOUR
T1 - Giant magneto-optical responses in magnetic Weyl semimetal Co3Sn2S2
AU - Okamura, Y.
AU - Minami, S.
AU - Kato, Y.
AU - Fujishiro, Y.
AU - Kaneko, Y.
AU - Ikeda, J.
AU - Muramoto, J.
AU - Kaneko, R.
AU - Ueda, K.
AU - Kocsis, V.
AU - Kanazawa, N.
AU - Taguchi, Y.
AU - Koretsune, T.
AU - Fujiwara, K.
AU - Tsukazaki, A.
AU - Arita, R.
AU - Tokura, Y.
AU - Takahashi, Y.
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank N. Nagaosa for valuable comments and N. Ogawa and M. Sotome for experimental help. This work was partially supported by JSPS KAKENHI (Grant Nos. 19K14653, 16H06345) and JST CREST (JPMJCR16F1, JPMJCR1874 and JPMJCR18T2).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020, The Author(s).
PY - 2020/12/1
Y1 - 2020/12/1
N2 - The Weyl semimetal (WSM), which hosts pairs of Weyl points and accompanying Berry curvature in momentum space near Fermi level, is expected to exhibit novel electromagnetic phenomena. Although the large optical/electronic responses such as nonlinear optical effects and intrinsic anomalous Hall effect (AHE) have recently been demonstrated indeed, the conclusive evidence for their topological origins has remained elusive. Here, we report the gigantic magneto-optical (MO) response arising from the topological electronic structure with intense Berry curvature in magnetic WSM Co3Sn2S2. The low-energy MO spectroscopy and the first-principles calculation reveal that the interband transitions on the nodal rings connected to the Weyl points show the resonance of the optical Hall conductivity and give rise to the giant intrinsic AHE in dc limit. The terahertz Faraday and infrared Kerr rotations are found to be remarkably enhanced by these resonances with topological electronic structures, demonstrating the novel low-energy optical response inherent to the magnetic WSM.
AB - The Weyl semimetal (WSM), which hosts pairs of Weyl points and accompanying Berry curvature in momentum space near Fermi level, is expected to exhibit novel electromagnetic phenomena. Although the large optical/electronic responses such as nonlinear optical effects and intrinsic anomalous Hall effect (AHE) have recently been demonstrated indeed, the conclusive evidence for their topological origins has remained elusive. Here, we report the gigantic magneto-optical (MO) response arising from the topological electronic structure with intense Berry curvature in magnetic WSM Co3Sn2S2. The low-energy MO spectroscopy and the first-principles calculation reveal that the interband transitions on the nodal rings connected to the Weyl points show the resonance of the optical Hall conductivity and give rise to the giant intrinsic AHE in dc limit. The terahertz Faraday and infrared Kerr rotations are found to be remarkably enhanced by these resonances with topological electronic structures, demonstrating the novel low-energy optical response inherent to the magnetic WSM.
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U2 - 10.1038/s41467-020-18470-0
DO - 10.1038/s41467-020-18470-0
M3 - Article
C2 - 32934234
AN - SCOPUS:85091054707
SN - 2041-1723
VL - 11
JO - Nature Communications
JF - Nature Communications
IS - 1
M1 - 4619
ER -