Anomalous spin correlations and excitonic instability of interacting 2D Weyl fermions

Authors

MIchihiro hirata, Kyohei ishikawa, Genki Matsuno, Akito Kobayashi, Kazuya Miyagawa, Masafumi Tamura, Claude Berthier, and Kazushi Kanoda

Abstract

The Coulomb interaction in systems of quasi-relativistic massless electrons has an unscreened long-range component at variance with conventional correlated metals. We used nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) measurements to reveal unusual spin correlations of two-dimensional Weyl fermions in an organic material, causing a divergent increase of the Korringa ratio by a factor of 1000 upon cooling, in marked contrast to conventional metallic behavior. Combined with model calculations, we show that this divergence stems from an interaction-driven velocity renormalization that almost exclusively suppresses zero-momentum spin fluctuations. At low temperatures, the NMR relaxation rate shows an unexpected increase; numerical analyses show that this increase corresponds to internode excitonic fluctuations, a precursor to a transition from massless to massive quasiparticles.

Science：http://science.sciencemag.org/content/358/6369/1403.full