Chiral topological metals with multiple types of quasiparticle fermions and large spin Hall effect in the SrGePt family materials
Yi Shen, Yahui Jin, Yongheng Ge, Mingxing Chen, Ziming Zhu
Abstract
We present a prediction of chiral topological metals with several classes of unconventional quasiparticle fermions in a family of SrGePt-type materials in terms of first-principles calculations. In these materials, fourfold spin-3/2 Rarita-Schwinger-Weyl (RSW) fermion, sixfold excitation, and Weyl fermions coexist around the Fermi level as spin-orbit coupling is considered, and the Chern number for the first two kinds of fermions is the maximal value four. We found that large Fermi arcs from spin-3/2 RSW fermion emerge on the (010) surface, spanning the whole surface Brillouin zone. Moreover, there exist Fermi arcs originating from Weyl points, which further overlap with trivial bulk bands. In addition, we revealed that the large spin Hall conductivity can be obtained, which attributed to the remarkable spin Berry curvature around the degenerate nodes and band splitting induced by spin-orbit coupling. Our findings indicate that the SrGePt family of compounds provide an excellent platform for studying on topological electronic states and the intrinsic spin Hall effect.