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American Physical Society, Physical review B, 2(96)

DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.96.024435

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Stability of Weyl points in magnetic half-metallic Heusler compounds

Journal article published in 2017 by Stanislav Chadov, Shu-Chun Wu, Claudia Felser, Iosif Galanakis ORCID
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Abstract

We employ {\it ab-initio} fully-relativistic electronic structure calculations to study the stability of the Weyl points in the momentum space within the class of the half-metallic ferromagnetic full Heusler materials, by focusing on Co$_2$TiAl as a well-established prototype compound. Here we show that both the number of the Weyl points together with their $k$-space coordinates can be controlled by the orientation of the magnetization. This alternative degree of freedom, which is absent in other topological materials (e.g. in Weyl semimetals), introduces novel functionalities, specific for the class of half-metallic ferromagnets. Of special interest are Weyl points which are preserved irrespectively of any arbitrary rotation of the magnetization axis.