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Nodal-line driven anomalous susceptibility in ZrSiS

Journal

PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 105, Issue 24, Pages -

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AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.105.L241115

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Funding

  1. CSF [IP 2018 01 8912]
  2. Croatian Government
  3. EU through the European Regional Development Fund-Competitiveness and Cohesion Operational Program [KK.01.1.1.02.0013]
  4. KAKENHI [17H06138, 18H03683]
  5. JSPS International Fellowships for Research in Japan
  6. CeNIKS project

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We demonstrate a unique approach to test the signature of the nodal-line physics by thermodynamic methods. By measuring magnetic susceptibility in ZrSiS, we found an intriguing temperature-driven crossover from paramagnetic behavior. The anomalous behavior represents a real thermodynamic signature of the underlying nodal-line physics, which can be verified through chemical pressure, quantum oscillations, and theoretical modeling. The results in ZrSiS provide a starting point for exploring other nodal-line physics-related phenomena in other materials using thermodynamic methods.
We demonstrate a unique approach to test the signature of the nodal-line physics by thermodynamic methods. By measuring magnetic susceptibility in ZrSiS we found an intriguing temperature-driven crossover from diato paramagnetic behavior. We show that the anomalous behavior represents a real thermodynamic signature of the underlying nodal-line physics through the means of chemical pressure (isovalent substitution of Zr for Hf), quantum oscillations, and theoretical modeling. The anomalous part of the susceptibility is orbital by nature, and it arises due to the vicinity of the Fermi level to a degeneracy point created by the crossing of two nodal lines. Furthermore, an unexpected Lifshitz topological transition at the degeneracy point is revealed by tuning the Fermi level. The present findings in ZrSiS give an attractive starting point for various nodal-line physics-related phenomena to be tested by thermodynamic methods in other related materials.

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