Colossal orbital Zeeman effect driven by tunable spin-Berry curvature in a kagome metal
arXiv:2312.04445 · doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02487-z
Abstract
Berry phase and the related concept of Berry curvature can give rise to many unconventional phenomena in solids. In this work, we discover colossal orbital Zeeman effect of topological origin in a newly synthesized bilayer kagome metal TbV6Sn6. We use spectroscopic-imaging scanning tunneling microscopy to study the magnetic field induced renormalization of the electronic band structure. The nonmagnetic vanadium d-orbitals form Dirac crossings at the K point with a small mass gap and strong Berry curvature induced by the spin-orbit coupling. We reveal that the magnetic field leads to the splitting of gapped Dirac dispersion into two branches with giant momentum-dependent g factors, resulting in the substantial renormalization of the Dirac band. These measurements provide a direct observation of the magnetic field controlled orbital Zeeman coupling to the enormous orbital magnetic moments of up to 200 Bohr magnetons near the gapped Dirac points. Interestingly, the effect is increasingly non-linear, and becomes gradually suppressed at higher magnetic fields. Theoretical modeling further confirms the existence of orbital magnetic moments in TbV6Sn6 produced by the non-trivial spin-Berry curvature of the Bloch wave functions. Our work provides the first direct insight into the momentum-dependent nature of topological orbital moments and their tunability by magnetic field concomitant with the evolution of the spin-Berry curvature. Significantly large orbital magnetic moments driven by the Berry curvature can also be generated by other quantum numbers beyond spin, such as the valley in certain graphene-based structures, which may be unveiled using the same tools highlighted in our work.
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