Complex magnetic phases enriched by charge density waves in topological semimetals GdSb_xTe_{2-x-δ}

Abstract

The interplay of crystal symmetry, magnetism, band topology and electronic correlation can be the origin of quantum phase transitions in condensed matter. Particularly, square-lattice materials have been serving as a versatile platform to study the rich phenomena resulting from that interplay. In this work, we report a detailed magnetic study on the square-lattice based magnetic topological semimetals GdSb_{x}Te_{2-x-δ}. We report the H-T magnetic phase diagrams along three crystallographic orientations and show that, for those materials where a charge density wave distortion is known to exist, many different magnetic phases are identified. In addition, the data provides a clue to the existence of an antiferromagnetic skyrmion phase, which has been theoretically predicted but not experimentally confirmed in a bulk material yet.

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