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Magnetic structure of the topological semimetal Co3Sn2S2

Soh, Jian-Rui  
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Yi, ChangJiang
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Zivkovic, Ivica  
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March 28, 2022
Physical Review B

Co3Sn2S2 has recently been predicted to be a Weyl semimetal in which magnetic order is key to its behavior as a topological material. Here, we report unpolarized neutron diffraction and spherical neutron polarimetry measurements, supported by magnetization and transport data, which probe the magnetic order in Co3Sn2S2 below TC = 177 K. The results are fully consistent with ferromagnetic order in which the spins on the Co atoms point along the crystal c axis, although we cannot rule out some canting of the spins. We find no evidence for a type of long-ranged (k = 0) in-plane 120?? antiferromagnetic order which had previously been considered as a secondary phase present at temperatures between -90 K and TC. A discontinuous change in bulk properties and neutron polarization observed at T = 125 K when samples are cooled in a field and measured on warming is found to be due to a sudden reduction in ferromagnetic domain size. Our results lend support to the theoretical predictions that Co3Sn2S2 is a magnetic Weyl semimetal.

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DOI
10.1103/PhysRevB.105.094435
Web of Science ID

WOS:000800216200003

Author(s)
Soh, Jian-Rui  
Yi, ChangJiang
Zivkovic, Ivica  
Qureshi, Navid
Stunault, Anne
Ouladdiaf, Bachir
Rodriguez-Velamazan, J. Alberto
Shi, YouGuo
Ronnow, Henrik M.  
Boothroyd, Andrew T.
Date Issued

2022-03-28

Publisher

AMER PHYSICAL SOC

Published in
Physical Review B
Volume

105

Issue

9

Article Number

094435

Subjects

Materials Science, Multidisciplinary

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Physics, Applied

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Physics, Condensed Matter

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Materials Science

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Physics

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REVIEWED

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