第1回　物理工学科教室談話会(講師：安岡 弘志 氏)

第1回　物理工学科教室談話会(講師：安岡 弘志 氏)
2017.4.18
Date & Time：18 April 15:30-17:00
Place：Faculty of Engineering Bldg.6, 1F Room103 工学部6号館1階103号室
（大会議室）
Title: Emergent Weyl fermion excitations in Tap and NbP explored by 93Nb NMR and 181Ta NQR
Lecturer：Dr. Hiroshi Yasuoka (Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids)
The past decade has seen an explosion of interest in the role of topology in condensed matter physics. Arguably the most topical of the new classes of material are Dirac- and Weyl-semi metals which are predicted to host topologically protected states in the bulk. In Dirac semimetals (DSM), (e.g. Cd2As3 or Na3Bi) each node contains fermions of two opposite chiralities, whereas in the Weyl semimetals (WSM), an even more interesting situation arises. A combination of non-centrosymmetric crystal structure and sizable spin-orbit coupling (SOC) causes the nodes to split into pairs of opposite chirality (Weyl points). For WSMs such as the d-electron monophosphides NbP and TaP, EF does not exactly coincide with the Weyl nodes. However, if the nodes sit close enough to
EF, in a region of linear dispersion (E∝k), the Weyl physics can still be observed in the properties of very light fermions. A key issue in the study of the monophosphides is therefore to establish how close to the Fermi level the Weyl points sit, and to estimate the range of energy over which the linear dispersion exists.
The 93Nb nuclear magnetic response (NMR) and 181Ta nuclear quadrupole resonance (NQR) techniques have been utilized to investigate the microscopic magnetic properties of the Weyl semi-metals, single crystal of NbP and powder of TaP. We made detailed measurements on the temperature dependences of line profiles K(T), νQ(T) and nuclear relaxation rate (1/T1T), both of which gave us a characteristic features associated with the Weyl physics. As a typical example, we discuss the temperature dependence of 1/T1T in TaP. One can immediately observe in this result that there exists a characteristic temperature, T* ~30 K, where the relaxation process has a crossover from a high temperature T^2 behavior which is associated with the excitations in the nodal structure
of Weyl points to the low temperature Korringa excitations for a parabolic bands with a weak temperature dependence. The band structure calculation of TaP tells us that besides the normal bands, two types of Weyl points appear. The first set of Weyl points, termed W1 and located at much lower energy (~40 meV) than the EF. The second set of Weyl points, W2, are slightly higher in energy (~13 meV) than EF [1]. From this band structure one can easily imagine that the conventional Korringa process is valid in well below temperature corresponding to the W2 energy, while increasing temperature excitations at the W2 Weyl nodes become progressively dominant. A construction of the total relaxation processes, including an anomalous orbital hyperfine coupling [2], is obtained, where we have good agreement with the experimental result.
[1] F. Arnold, et.al. Nature Communications 7, 11615 (2016), [2] Z. Okvatovity, F. Simon and B. Dora, arXive 1609.03370v1, 12, Sep. (2016) T. K., Y. K. and H.T appreciate the financial support from JSPS
紹介教員：今田正俊教授、鹿野田一司教授