Exotic Landau Diamagnetism and Weyl-Fermions Excitations in TaAs Revealed by ${}^{75}$As NMR and NQR

Abstract

The electronic and superconducting properties associated with the topologically non-trivial bands in Weyl semimetals have recently attracted much attention. We report the microscopic properties of the type-I Weyl semimetal TaAs measured by ${}^{75}$As nuclear magnetic (quadrupole) resonance under zero and elevated magnetic fields over a wide temperature range up to 500 K. The magnetic susceptibility measured by the Knight shift $K$ is found to be negative at low magnetic fields and have a strong field ($B$) dependence as ln$B$ at $T$ = 1.56 K. Such nonlinear field-dependent magnetization can be well accounted for by Landau diamagnetism arising from the 3D linearly dispersed bands, and thus is a fingerprint of topological semimetals. We further study the low-energy excitations by the spin-lattice relaxation rate 1/$T_1$. At zero field and 30 K $\le T\le$ 250 K, 1/$T_{1}T$ shows a $T^2$ variation due to Weyl nodes excitations. At $B\sim$ 13 T, $1/T_{1}T$ exhibits the same $T$-dependence but with a smaller value, scaling with $K^2\propto T^2$, which indicates that the Korringa relation also holds for a Weyl semimetal. Analysis of the Korringa ratio reveals that the energy range of the linear bands is about 250 K in TaAs.

Phys.Rev. B, Rapid Commu. (in press)

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