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Anomalous conductivity tensor in the Dirac semimetal Na_3Bi

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2016-10-31 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

Na3Bi is a Dirac semimetal with protected nodes that may be sensitive to the breaking of time-reversal invariance in a magnetic field B. We report experiments which reveal that both the conductivity and resistivity tensors exhibit robust anomalies in B. The resistivity ρxx\rho_{xx} is B-linear up to 35 T, while the Hall angle exhibits an unusual profile approaching a step-function. The conductivities σxx\sigma_{xx} and σxy\sigma_{xy} share identical power-law dependences at large B. We propose that these significant deviations from conventional transport result from an unusual sensitivity of the transport lifetime to B. Comparison with Cd3As2 is made.

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@article{arxiv.1502.06266,
  title  = {Anomalous conductivity tensor in the Dirac semimetal Na_3Bi},
  author = {Jun Xiong and Satya Kushwaha and Jason Krizan and Tian Liang and R. J. Cava and N. P. Ong},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1502.06266},
  year   = {2016}
}

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8 pages, 5 figures