Dirac points and Weyl phase in a honeycomb altermagnet

Zhang Meng-Han, Guo Xuan, Dao-Xin Yao

Published 2024-12-04Version 1

We present a graphene derivative displaying novel topological phenomena without the spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in a collinear altermagnet. By investigating the retarded and advanced Green's functions, we calculate the spectral density and amplitude of wave function whose exact solutions are analytically obtained. The altermagnetism breaks the intrinsic time-reversal symmetry, guaranteeing the formation of pairs of Weyl points associated with the internal spin structure chiralities. We demonstrate the evolution of Dirac and Weyl crossings, in which spontaneous Hall effect is controlled by the chiral edge modes. Topological phase transitions are characterized by the high Chern numbers preserving the non-intersecting flows of Wannier centers over occupied bands. We illustrate possible experiments to realize topologically altermagnetic responses according to the bulk-boundary correspondence.