title: Weyl Mott Insulator.
abstract: Relativistic Weyl fermion (WF) often appears in the band structure of three dimensional magnetic materials and acts as a source or sink of the Berry curvature, i.e., the (anti-)monopole. It has been believed that the WFs are stable due to their topological indices except when two Weyl fermions of opposite chiralities annihilate pairwise. Here, we theoretically show for a model including the electron-electron interaction that the Mott gap opens for each WF without violating the topological stability, leading to a topological Mott insulator dubbed Weyl Mott insulator (WMI). This WMI is characterized by several novel features such as (i) energy gaps in the angle-resolved photo-emission spectroscopy (ARPES) and the optical conductivity, (ii) the nonvanishing Hall conductance, and (iii) the Fermi arc on the surface with the penetration depth diverging as approaching to the momentum at which the Weyl point is projected. Experimental detection of the WMI by distinguishing from conventional Mott insulators is discussed with possible relevance to pyrochlore iridates.
authors.affiliation: RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS), Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan.
authors.forename: Takahiro
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Morimoto
authors.affiliation: RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS), Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan.|Department of Applied Physics, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan.
authors.forename: Naoto
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Nagaosa
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