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Magnetic-field-induced electronic instability of Weyl-like fermions in compressed black phosphorus

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Revealing the role of Coulomb interaction in topological semimetals with Dirac/Weyl-like band dispersion shapes a new frontier in condensed matter physics. Topological node-line semimetals (TNLSMs), anticipated as a fertile ground for exploring electronic correlation effects due to the anisotropy associated with their node-line structure, have recently attracted considerable attention. In this study, we report an experimental observation for correlation effects in TNLSMs realized by black phosphorus (BP) under hydrostatic pressure. By performing a combination of nuclear magnetic resonance measurements and band calculations on compressed BP, a magnetic-field-induced electronic instability of Weyl-like fermions is identified under an external magnetic field parallel to the so-called nodal ring in the reciprocal space. Anomalous spin fluctuations serving as the fingerprint of electronic instability are observed at low temperatures, and they are observed to maximize at approximately 1.0 GPa. This study presents compressed BP as a realistic material platform for exploring the rich physics in strongly coupled Weyl-like fermions.

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  1. CAS Key Laboratory of Strongly-coupled Quantum Matter Physics, Department of Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, China

    Lixuan Zheng, Zeliang Sun, Dan Zhao, Jian Li, Dianwu Song, Shunjiao Li, Baolei Kang, Linpeng Nie, Min Shan, Zhimian Wu, Yanbing Zhou, Tao Wu & Xianhui Chen

  2. School of Physics and Technology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, China

    Kaifa Luo & Rui Yu

  3. Department of Physics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China

    Kaifa Luo & Xi Dai

  4. Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China

    Hongming Weng

  5. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China

    Hongming Weng

  6. CAS Center for Excellence in Superconducting Electronics (CENSE), Shanghai, 200050, China

    Tao Wu & Xianhui Chen

  7. CAS Center for Excellence in Quantum Information and Quantum Physics, Hefei, 230026, China

    Xianhui Chen

  8. Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China

    Tao Wu & Xianhui Chen

  9. Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory, Dongguan, 523808, China

    Hongming Weng

  10. Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, 78712, USA

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This work was supported by the National Key R&D Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (Grant Nos. 2017YFA0300201, and 2016YFA0303000), the Anhui Initiative in Quantum Information Technologies (Grant No. AHY160000), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11534010), and the Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China (Grant No. QYZDY-SSW-SLH021). Tao Wu thanks Yi Zhou, Zhong Wang, and Guozhu Liu for insightful discussion.

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Zheng, L., Luo, K., Sun, Z. et al. Magnetic-field-induced electronic instability of Weyl-like fermions in compressed black phosphorus. Sci. China Phys. Mech. Astron. 66, 117011 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11433-023-2189-7

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