Magnetic Weyl semimetals: Weyl semimetals (WSMs)—materials that host exotic quasiparticles called Weyl fermions—must break either spatial inversion or time-reversal symmetry. A number of WSMs that break inversion symmetry have been identified, but showing unambiguously that a material is a time-reversal-breaking WSM is tricky. Three groups now provide spectroscopic evidence for this latter state in magnetic materials (see the Perspective by da Silva Neto). Belopolski et al. probed the material Co 2 MnGa using angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, revealing exotic drumhead surface states. Using the same technique, Liu et al. studied the material Co 3 Sn 2 S 2 , which was complemented by the scanning tunneling spectroscopy measurements of Morali et al. These magnetic WSM states provide an ideal setting for exotic transport effects. Science , this issue p. 1278 , p. 1282 , p. 1286 ; see also p. 1248
Magnetic Weyl semimetals: Weyl semimetals (WSMs)—materials that host exotic quasiparticles called Weyl fermions—must break either spatial inversion or time-reversal symmetry. A number of WSMs that break inversion symmetry have been identified, but showing unambiguously that a material is a time-reversal-breaking WSM is tricky. Three groups now provide spectroscopic evidence for this latter state in magnetic materials (see the Perspective by da Silva Neto). Belopolski et al. probed the material Co 2 MnGa using angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, revealing exotic drumhead surface states. Using the same technique, Liu et al. studied the material Co 3 Sn 2 S 2 , which was complemented by the scanning tunneling spectroscopy measurements of Morali et al. These magnetic WSM states provide an ideal setting for exotic transport effects. Science , this issue p. 1278 , p. 1282 , p. 1286 ; see also p. 1248
Applying a temperature gradient in a magnetic material generates a voltage that is perpendicular to both the heat flow and the magnetization. This phenomenon is the anomalous Nernst effect (ANE), which was long thought to be proportional to the value of the magnetization. However, more generally, the ANE has been predicted to originate from a net Berry curvature of all bands near the Fermi level (EF). Subsequently, a large anomalous Nernst thermopower ( $${\boldsymbol{S}}_{{\boldsymbol{yx}}}^{\boldsymbol{A}}$$ ) has recently been observed in topological materials with no net magnetization but a large net Berry curvature [Ωn(k)] around EF. These experiments clearly fall outside the scope of the conventional magnetization model of the ANE, but a significant question remains. Can the value of the ANE in topological ferromagnets exceed the highest values observed in conventional ferromagnets? Here, we report a remarkably high $${\boldsymbol{S}}_{{\boldsymbol{yx}}}^{\boldsymbol{A}}$$ -value of ~6.0 µV K−1 in the ferromagnetic topological Heusler compound Co2MnGa at room temperature, which is approximately seven times larger than any anomalous Nernst thermopower value ever reported for a conventional ferromagnet. Combined electrical, thermoelectric, and first-principles calculations reveal that this high-value of the ANE arises from a large net Berry curvature near the Fermi level associated with nodal lines and Weyl points.