A pressure-induced topological phase with large Berry curvature in Pb${}_{1-x}$Sn${}_x$Te

Abstract

The picture of how a gap closes in a semiconductor has been radically transformed by topological concepts. Instead of the gap closing and immediately re-opening, topological arguments predict that, in the absence of inversion symmetry, a metallic phase protected by Weyl nodes persists over a finite interval of the tuning parameter (e.g. pressure $P$) . The gap re-appears when the Weyl nodes mutually annihilate. We report evidence that Pb${}_{1-x}$Sn${}_x$Te exhibits this topological metallic phase. Using pressure to tune the gap, we have tracked the nucleation of a Fermi surface droplet that rapidly grows in volume with $P$. In the metallic state we observe a large Berry curvature which dominates the Hall effect. Moreover, a giant negative magnetoresistance is observed in the insulating side of phase boundaries, in accord with \emph{ab initio} calculations. The results confirm the existence of a topological metallic phase over a finite pressure interval.

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