Search for ferromagnetic quantum critical point in the Weyl semimetal Co3-xNixSn2S2

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The layered half-metal Co3Sn2S2 with a Kagomé lattice in the a-b plane has been recently discovered as a magnetic Weyl semimetal, whose Weyl nodes are only 60 meV above the charge neutrality point. It is a quasi-2D ferromagnet with TC= 177 K and a magnetic moment at Co sites along c-axis.By doping Ni into Co3Sn2S2 compound, the ferromagnetism is systematically suppressed, and a nearly linear dependence of the resistivity shows in the normal state, suggesting a possible ferromagnetic quantum critical point. We propose to carry out zero-field (ZF) and longitudinal field (LF) µSR measurements on Co3-xNixSn2S2 polycrystalline samples down to 50 mK, to confirm the existence of the ferromagnetic QCP in Co3-xNixSn2S2 system and determine its location of Ni doping level. We request in total 7 days of beam time on the MUSR spectrometer or 9 days on EMU (two days for two times dilution cooling).

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.RB1910200-1
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/103212467
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Creator Dr Xiaoyan Ma; Dr Hui-Qian Luo; Dr Enke Liu; Miss CHANG LIU; Dr Pabitra Biswas; Dr Devashi Adroja
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2022
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Discipline Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2019-07-09T08:30:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2019-07-14T08:30:00Z