2023/08/18 by Mazzola, Federico, Enzner, Stefan, Eck, Philipp +20 · 3 citations
#FOS: Physical sciences #Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2308.09589
Engineering surfaces and interfaces of materials promises great potential in the field of heterostructures and quantum matter designer, with the opportunity of driving new many-body phases that are absent in the bulk compounds. Here, we focus on the magnetic Weyl kagome system Co3Sn2S2 and show how for different sample's terminations the Weyl-points connect also differently, still preserving the bulk-boundary correspondence. Scanning-tunnelling microscopy has suggested such a scenario indirectly. Here, we demonstrate this directly for the fermiology of Co3Sn2S2, by linking it to the system real space surfaces distribution. By a combination of micro-ARPES and first-principles calculations, we measure the energy-momentum spectra and the Fermi surfaces of Co3Sn2S2 for different surface terminations and show the existence of topological features directly depending on the top-layer electronic environment. Our work helps to define a route to control bulk-derived topological properties by means of surface electrostatic potentials, creating a realistic and reliable methodology to use Weyl kagome metals in responsive magnetic spintronics.