We report on high-field angle-dependent magneto-transport measurements on epitaxial thin films of Bi2Se3, a three-dimensional topological insulator. At low temperature, we observe quantum oscillations that demonstrate the simultaneous presence of bulk and surface carriers. The magneto- resistance of Bi2Se3 is found to be highly anisotropic. In the presence of a parallel electric and magnetic field, we observe a strong negative longitudinal magneto-resistance that has been consid- ered as a smoking-gun for the presence of chiral fermions in a certain class of semi-metals due to the so-called axial anomaly. Its observation in a three-dimensional topological insulator implies that the axial anomaly may be in fact a far more generic phenomenon than originally thought.
@article{arxiv.1608.03615,
title = {Anisotropic and strong negative magneto-resistance in the three-dimensional topological insulator Bi2Se3},
author = {S. Wiedmann and A. Jost and B. Fauque and J. van Dijk and M. J. Meijer and T. Khouri and S. Pezzini and S. Grauer and S. Schreyeck and C. Brune and H. Buhmann and L. W. Molenkamp and N. E. Hussey},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.03615},
year = {2016}
}