Multiple quantum phase transitions of different nature in the topological kagome magnet Co3Sn2−x In x S2
Zurab Guguchia, Haidong Zhou, Chennan Wang, Jia‐Xin Yin, C. Mielke, Stepan S. Tsirkin, Ilya Belopolski, Stephen Zhang, Tyler A. Cochran, Titus Neupert, R. Khasanov, A. Amato, Shuang Jia, M. Zahid Hasan, H. Luetkens
Abstract
Abstract The exploration of topological electronic phases that result from strong electronic correlations is a frontier in condensed matter physics. One class of systems that is currently emerging as a platform for such studies are so-called kagome magnets based on transition metals. Using muon spin-rotation, we explore magnetic correlations in the kagome magnet Co3Sn2−xInxS2 as a function of In-doping, providing putative evidence for an intriguing incommensurate helimagnetic (HM) state. Our results show that, while the undoped sample exhibits an out-of-plane ferromagnetic (FM) ground state, at 5% of In-doping the system enters a state in which FM and in-plane antiferromagnetic (AFM) phases coexist. At higher doping, a HM state emerges and becomes dominant at the critical doping level of only x cr,1 ≃ 0.3. This indicates a zero temperature first order quantum phase transition from the FM, through a mixed state, to a helical phase at x cr,1. In addition, at x cr,2 ≃ 1, a zero temperature second order phase transition from helical to paramagnetic phase is observed, evidencing a HM quantum critical point (QCP) in the phase diagram of the topological magnet Co3Sn2−xInxS2. The observed diversity of interactions in the magnetic kagome lattice drives non-monotonous variations of the topological Hall response of this system.