Evidence for magnetic Weyl fermions in a correlated metal

Experimental evidence for the realization of magnetic Weyl fermions in the strongly correlated metal Mn 3 Sn is reported. Weyl fermions 1 , 2 , 3 have been observed as three-dimensional, gapless topological excitations in weakly correlated, inversion-symmetry-breaking semimetals 4 , 5 . However, their realization in spontaneously time-reversal-symmetry-breaking phases of strongly correlated materials has so far remained hypothetical 2 , 6 , 7 . Here, we report experimental evidence for magnetic Weyl fermions in Mn 3 Sn, a non-collinear antiferromagnet that exhibits a large anomalous Hall effect, even at room temperature 8 . Detailed comparison between angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) measurements and density functional theory (DFT) calculations reveals significant bandwidth renormalization and damping effects due to the strong correlation among Mn 3 d electrons. Magnetotransport measurements provide strong evidence for the chiral anomaly of Weyl fermions—namely, the emergence of positive magnetoconductance only in the presence of parallel electric and magnetic fields. Since weak magnetic fields (approximately 10 mT) are adequate to control the distribution of Weyl points and the large fictitious fields (equivalent to approximately a few hundred T) produced by them in momentum space, our discovery lays the foundation for a new field of science and technology involving the magnetic Weyl excitations of strongly correlated electron systems such as Mn 3 Sn.