Stefanie Suzanne Brinkman, Xin Liang Tan, Bjørnulf Brekke, Anders Christian Mathisen, Øyvind Finnseth, Richard Justin Schenk, Kenta Hagiwara, Meng-Jie Huang, Jens Buck, Matthias Kalläne, Moritz Hoesch, Kai Rossnagel, Kui-Hon Ou Yang, Minn-Tsong Lin, Guo-Jiun Shu, Ying-Jiun Chen, Christian Tusche, Hendrik Bentmann
Chiral crystals and molecules were recently predicted to form an intriguing platform for unconventional orbital physics. Here, we report the observation of chirality-driven orbital textures in the bulk electronic structure of CoSi, a prototype member of the cubic B20 family of chiral crystals. Using circular dichroism in soft x-ray angle-resolved photoemission, we demonstrate the formation of a bulk orbital-angular-momentum texture and monopolelike orbital-momentum locking that depends on crystal handedness...
May 10, 2024: Physical Review Letters