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Weyl Fermion magneto-electrodynamics and ultralow field quantum limit in TaAs

Cornell Affiliated Author(s)

Author

Zhengguang Lu
Patrick Hollister
Mykhaylo Ozerov
Seongphill Moon
Eric Bauer
Filip Ronning
Dmitry Smirnov
Long Ju
B. Ramshaw

Abstract

Topological semimetals are predicted to exhibit unconventional electrodynamics, but a central experimental challenge is singling out the contributions from the topological bands. TaAs is the prototypical example, where 24 Weyl points and 8 trivial Fermi surfaces make the interpretation of any experiment in terms of band topology ambiguous. We report magneto-infrared reflection spectroscopy measurements on TaAs. We observed sharp inter-Landau level transitions from a single pocket of Weyl Fermions in magnetic fields as low as 0.4 tesla. We determine the W2 Weyl point to be 8.3 meV below the Fermi energy, corresponding to a quantum limit—the field required to reach the lowest LL—of 0.8 tesla—unprecedentedly low for Weyl Fermions. LL spectroscopy allows us to isolate these Weyl Fermions from all other carriers in TaAs, and our result provides a way for directly exploring the more exotic quantum phenomena in Weyl semimetals, such as the chiral anomaly. Copyright © 2022 The Authors, some rights reserved; exclusive licensee American Association for the Advancement of Science. No claim to original U.S. Government Works. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (CC BY).

Date Published

Journal

Science Advances

Volume

8

Issue

2

URL

https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85122879851&doi=10.1126%2fsciadv.abj1076&partnerID=40&md5=e45d6e892997948f42fb0c984d0c987b

DOI

10.1126/sciadv.abj1076

Group (Lab)

Brad Ramshaw Group

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