Tuning the electronic band structure in a kagome ferromagnetic metal via magnetization

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates how the electronic band structure in a kagome ferromagnetic metal can be tuned by controlling the magnetization direction, significantly affecting carrier density due to spin-orbit coupling.

Contribution

It provides experimental evidence that magnetization orientation can control the band structure in a kagome Weyl ferromagnetic metal, enabling tunable electronic properties.

Findings

Carrier density decreases fourfold when magnetization is in-plane versus out-of-plane.

Band structure depends on magnetization direction due to spin-orbit coupling.

Magnetization control offers a new way to tune electronic properties in ferromagnetic materials.

Abstract

Materials with zero energy band gap display intriguing properties including high sensitivity of the electronic band structure to external stimulus such as pressure or magnetic field. An interesting candidate for zero energy band gap are Weyl nodes at the Fermi level EF. A prerequisite for the existence of Weyl nodes is to either have inversion or time reversal symmetry broken. Weyl nodes in systems with broken time reversal symmetry are ideal to realize the tunability of the electronic band structure by magnetic field. Theoretically, it has been shown that in ferromagnetic Weyl materials, the band structure is dependent upon the magnetization direction and thus the electronic bands can be tuned by controlling the magnetization direction. Here, we demonstrate tuning of the band structure in a kagome Weyl ferromagnetic metal Fe3Sn2 with magnetization and magnetic field. Owing to spin-orbit coupling, we observe changes in the band structure depending on the magnetization direction that amount to a decrease in the carrier density by a factor of four when the magnetization lies in the kagome plane as compared to when the magnetization is along the c axis. Our discovery opens a way for tuning the carrier density in ferromagnetic materials.