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- Title
Spin-valley locking and bulk quantum Hall effect in a noncentrosymmetric Dirac semimetal BaMnSb2.
- Authors
Liu, J. Y.; Yu, J.; Ning, J. L.; Yi, H. M.; Miao, L.; Min, L. J.; Zhao, Y. F.; Ning, W.; Lopez, K. A.; Zhu, Y. L.; Pillsbury, T.; Zhang, Y. B.; Wang, Y.; Hu, J.; Cao, H. B.; Chakoumakos, B. C.; Balakirev, F.; Weickert, F.; Jaime, M.; Lai, Y.
- Abstract
Spin-valley locking in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides has attracted enormous interest, since it offers potential for valleytronic and optoelectronic applications. Such an exotic electronic state has sparsely been seen in bulk materials. Here, we report spin-valley locking in a Dirac semimetal BaMnSb2. This is revealed by comprehensive studies using first principles calculations, tight-binding and effective model analyses, angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy measurements. Moreover, this material also exhibits a stacked quantum Hall effect (QHE). The spin-valley degeneracy extracted from the QHE is close to 2. This result, together with the Landau level spin splitting, further confirms the spin-valley locking picture. In the extreme quantum limit, we also observed a plateau in the z-axis resistance, suggestive of a two-dimensional chiral surface state present in the quantum Hall state. These findings establish BaMnSb2 as a rare platform for exploring coupled spin and valley physics in bulk single crystals and accessing 3D interacting topological states. Valley dependent spin polarization called spin-valley locking appears in absence of magnetism but it is limited to rare examples of transition metal dichalcogenides. Here, the authors report evidence of spin-valley locking and stacked quantum Hall effect in a bulk Dirac semimetal BaMnSb2.
- Subjects
QUANTUM Hall effect; SEMIMETALS; LANDAU levels; PHOTOELECTRON spectroscopy; QUANTUM states; SPIN polarization; PHOTOEMISSION
- Publication
Nature Communications, 2021, Vol 12, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2041-1723
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/s41467-021-24369-1