Chiral magnetoresistance in the Weyl semimetal NbP

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Chiral magnetoresistance in the Weyl semimetal NbP
المؤلفون: Niemann, Anna Corinna, Gooth, Johannes, Wu, Shu-Chun, Bäßler, Svenja, Sergelius, Philip, Hühne, Ruben, Rellinghaus, Bernd, Shekhar, Chandra, Süß, Vicky, Schmidt, Marcus, Felser, Claudia, Yan, Binghai, Nielsch, Kornelius
سنة النشر: 2016
المجموعة: Condensed Matter
مصطلحات موضوعية: Condensed Matter - Materials Science
الوصف: NbP is a recently realized Weyl semimetal (WSM), hosting Weyl points through which conduction and valence bands cross linearly in the bulk and exotic Fermi arcs appear. However, the most intriguing transport phenomenon of a WSM, the chiral anomaly-induced negative magnetoresistance (NMR) in parallel electric and magnetic fields, has yet to be observed in NbP. In intrinsic NbP the Weyl points lie far from the Fermi energy, making chiral magneto-transport elusive. Here, we use Ga-doping to relocate the Fermi energy in NbP sufficiently close to the Weyl points, for which the different Fermi surfaces are verified by resultant quantum oscillations. Consequently, we observe a NMR for parallel electric and magnetic fields, which is considered as a signature of the chiral anomaly in condensed-matter physics. The NMR survives up to room temperature, making NbP a versatile material platform for the development of Weyltronic applications.
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/1610.01413
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.1610.01413
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv