Berry phases and the related concept of Berry curvature can give rise to many unconventional phenomena in solids. Here, we discover a colossal orbital Zeeman effect of topological origin in a bilayer kagome metal, TbV6Sn6. Using spectroscopic imaging scanning tunnelling microscopy, we reveal that the magnetic field leads to a splitting of the gapped Dirac dispersion into two branches with enhanced momentum-dependent g factors, resulting in a substantial renormalization of the Dirac band. These measurements provide a direct observation of a magnetic field-controlled orbital Zeeman coupling to the orbital magnetic moments of up to 200þinspaceBohr magnetons near the gapped Dirac points. Our work provides direct insight into the momentum-dependent nature of topological orbital moments and their tunability via the magnetic field, concomitant with the evolution of the spin Berry curvature. These results can be extended to explore large orbital magnetic moments driven by the Berry curvature governed by other quantum numbers beyond spin, such as the valley in certain graphene-based structures.
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Spin Berry curvature-enhanced orbital Zeeman effect in a kagome metal | Nature Physics
%0 Journal Article
%1 Li2024
%A Li, Hong
%A Cheng, Siyu
%A Pokharel, Ganesh
%A Eck, Philipp
%A Bigi, Chiara
%A Mazzola, Federico
%A Sangiovanni, Giorgio
%A Wilson, Stephen D.
%A Di Sante, Domenico
%A Wang, Ziqiang
%A Zeljkovic, Ilija
%D 2024
%J Nat. Phys.
%K b
%R 10.1038/s41567-024-02487-z
%T Spin Berry curvature-enhanced orbital Zeeman effect in a kagome metal
%U https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-024-02487-z
%X Berry phases and the related concept of Berry curvature can give rise to many unconventional phenomena in solids. Here, we discover a colossal orbital Zeeman effect of topological origin in a bilayer kagome metal, TbV6Sn6. Using spectroscopic imaging scanning tunnelling microscopy, we reveal that the magnetic field leads to a splitting of the gapped Dirac dispersion into two branches with enhanced momentum-dependent g factors, resulting in a substantial renormalization of the Dirac band. These measurements provide a direct observation of a magnetic field-controlled orbital Zeeman coupling to the orbital magnetic moments of up to 200þinspaceBohr magnetons near the gapped Dirac points. Our work provides direct insight into the momentum-dependent nature of topological orbital moments and their tunability via the magnetic field, concomitant with the evolution of the spin Berry curvature. These results can be extended to explore large orbital magnetic moments driven by the Berry curvature governed by other quantum numbers beyond spin, such as the valley in certain graphene-based structures.
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abstract = {Berry phases and the related concept of Berry curvature can give rise to many unconventional phenomena in solids. Here, we discover a colossal orbital Zeeman effect of topological origin in a bilayer kagome metal, TbV6Sn6. Using spectroscopic imaging scanning tunnelling microscopy, we reveal that the magnetic field leads to a splitting of the gapped Dirac dispersion into two branches with enhanced momentum-dependent g factors, resulting in a substantial renormalization of the Dirac band. These measurements provide a direct observation of a magnetic field-controlled orbital Zeeman coupling to the orbital magnetic moments of up to 200{\thinspace}Bohr magnetons near the gapped Dirac points. Our work provides direct insight into the momentum-dependent nature of topological orbital moments and their tunability via the magnetic field, concomitant with the evolution of the spin Berry curvature. These results can be extended to explore large orbital magnetic moments driven by the Berry curvature governed by other quantum numbers beyond spin, such as the valley in certain graphene-based structures.},
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author = {Li, Hong and Cheng, Siyu and Pokharel, Ganesh and Eck, Philipp and Bigi, Chiara and Mazzola, Federico and Sangiovanni, Giorgio and Wilson, Stephen D. and Di Sante, Domenico and Wang, Ziqiang and Zeljkovic, Ilija},
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title = {Spin Berry curvature-enhanced orbital Zeeman effect in a kagome metal},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-024-02487-z},
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