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Fermi velocities and an orbital character for the bands
that is consistent with the experimental results. Addi-
tionally, surface reconstruction and replicated bands are
found.
Furthermore, the extracted value of Uis consistent
with that of other studies. Veis et al. found that
Ueff = (U−J)≈2 eV fit their angle-integrated pho-
toemission data best [12]. In the GGA+U scheme used
for the calculations in this paper, Uand Jvalues are
not separate, and what really enters the total energy is
the “U−J” value. So, the U= 2.25 eV term in this
manuscript corresponds to the Ueff . Guyen et al. used
U= 2 eV to explain emergent edge states on their surface
reconstructed CuMnAs thin films [14]. U < 2 eV fails to
even qualitatively capture the ARPES experimental re-
sults, primarily because the bandwidth of the band in the
X→Γ→Xis too small. The strongly constrained and
appropriately normed (SCAN) functional [19] increased
this bandwidth compared to pure GGA, yielding a similar
bandwidth to U= 1 eV. Nevertheless, SCAN still did not
produce a large enough bandwidth for the X→Γ→X
cut. U= 2.25 eV within GGA was primarily chosen be-
cause it reproduces the Fermi velocity in the X→Γ→X
cut most accurately.
By showing that DFT accurately captures the elec-
tronic structure of tetragonal CuMnAs, more weight is
given to the growing interest in CuMnAs as a candidate
AFM topological Dirac material. Furthermore, the low
DOS near EFprovides hope that tetragonal CuMnAs
can be electron doped moving EFinto the proximity of
the electrically switchable Dirac points above EFin the
studied films. According to the DFT, the Dirac points are
570 meV or ∼0.38 electrons per unit cell above the chem-
ical potential in the current films or only 180 meV/∼0.12
electrons per unit cell above the defect free chemical po-
tential. Alternatively, orthorhombic CuMnAs was sug-
gested to be a pristine antiferromagnetic Dirac semimetal
with only Dirac fermions at the Fermi level without any
trivial bands. Considering the reliability of DFT in the
description of tetragonal CuMnAs presented here, study-
ing orthorhombic CuMnAs appears as a promising direc-
tion in research of antiferromagnetic Dirac semimetals.
A. G. Linn and K. N. Gordon contributed equally to
gathering the ARPES data with support from J. D. Den-
linger, P. Hao, B. S. Berggren, D. Narayan, T. Kim, C.
Cacho, N. Speiser, S. Reimers, and S. Dhesi. The DFT
shown in this paper was performed by P. Hao with feed-
back from A. G. Linn, D. Dessau, L. ˇ
Smejkal, and T.
Jungwirth. P. Wadley oversaw the growth and charac-
terization of the thin films of tetragonal CuMnAs by R.P.
Campion and V. Novak. This manuscript was prepared
by A. G. Linn under guidance from Dan Dessau and with
feedback from all authors. Dan Dessau was the principal
investigator overseeing the work.
This work was supported by DOE grant DE-FG02-
03ER46066, Betty and Gordon Moore Foundation grant
GBMF9458, Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic
Grants LNSM-LNSpin, LM2018140, Czech Science Foun-
dation Grant No. 19-28375X, and EU FET Open RIA
Grant No. 766566. Additionally, P.Wadley acknowledges
support from the Royal Society through a Royal Society
University Research Fellowship. This research used re-
sources of the Advanced Light Source, a U.S. DOE Office
of Science User Facility under contract no. DE-AC02-
05CH11231. We would like to thank the Diamond i05
ARPES (SI22665, SI24224-1) and ALS Merlin ARPES
end station teams for allowing us time for and aiding in
the ARPES data acquisition.
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