Two-dimensional half Chern-Weyl semimetal with multiple screw axes

TL;DR

This paper introduces a novel 2D half Chern-Weyl semimetal phase, demonstrating its realization in monolayer TiTe with high Curie temperature and potential for advanced spintronics applications.

Contribution

It proposes the concept of 2D half Chern-Weyl semimetals, identifies symmetry conditions for their realization, and provides a concrete example with monolayer TiTe.

Findings

Monolayer TiTe exhibits high ferromagnetic Curie temperature (~966 K).

The study demonstrates the effect of correlation-enhanced spin-orbit coupling.

The work reveals switchable, spin-resolved half charge currents.

Abstract

Half topological states of matter and two-dimensional (2D) magnetism have gained much attention recently. In this paper, we propose a special topological semimetal phase called a 2D half Chern-Weyl semimetal (HCWS), which is a 2D magnetic Weyl semimetal bound to the half Chern insulator phase by symmetry, and the two phases can be converted to each other by manipulating the magnetization direction. We provide the symmetry conditions to realize this state in 2D systems with multiple screw axes. Tight-binding models with multiple basis and a predicted 2D material, monolayer TiTe, are shown as the concrete examples for HCWSs. The TiTe monolayer was shown to have a high ferremagnetic Curie temperature (~966 K) as well as a Coulomb correlation-enhanced spin-orbit coupling (SOC), and further demonstrates the effect of correlation-enhanced SOC on magnetocrystalline anisotropy energy and energy gap opening. Our work reveals a state with switchable and spin-resolved half body charge currents as well as half boundary charge currents, and will provide a platform for novel and high-performance topological spintronics devices.