Type-II Weyl Excitation in Vortex Arrays

Z.-X. Li, X. S. Wang, Lingling Song, Yunshan Cao, and Peng Yan
Phys. Rev. Applied 17, 024054 – Published 18 February 2022

Abstract

Weyl-like magnon excitations in ordered magnets have attracted significant recent attention. Despite the tantalizing physics and application prospects, the experimental observation of Weyl magnons is still challenging owing to their extraordinarily high frequency that is not accessible to the microstrip antenna technique. Here we predict gigahertz Weyl excitations in the collective dynamics of dipolar-coupled magnetic vortices arranged in a three-dimensional stacked honeycomb lattice. It is found that inversion symmetry breaking leads to the emergence of the type-II Weyl semimetal (WSM) state with tilted dispersion. We derive the full phase diagram of the vortex arrays that support WSMs with both single and double pairs of Weyl nodes, and the topological insulator phase. We observe robust arc surface states in a dual-segment fashion due to the tilted nature of type-II WSMs. Our findings uncover the low-frequency WSM phase in magnetic-texture-based crystals that are indispensable for future Weyltronic applications.

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  • Received 5 September 2021
  • Revised 17 December 2021
  • Accepted 27 January 2022

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.17.024054

© 2022 American Physical Society

Physics Subject Headings (PhySH)

Condensed Matter, Materials & Applied Physics

Authors & Affiliations

Z.-X. Li1, X. S. Wang2, Lingling Song1, Yunshan Cao1, and Peng Yan1,*

  • 1School of Electronic Science and Engineering and State Key Laboratory of Electronic Thin Films and Integrated Devices, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, China
  • 2School of Physics and Electronics, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China

  • *yan@uestc.edu.cn

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Vol. 17, Iss. 2 — February 2022

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