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Anomalous High-Field Magnetotransport in CaFeAsF due to the Quantum Hall Effect

Superconductivity 2022-06-16 v4 Materials Science Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

CaFeAsF is an iron-based superconductor parent compound whose Fermi surface is quasi-two dimensional, composed of Dirac-electron and Schr\"odinger-hole cylinders elongated along the cc axis. We measured the longitudinal and Hall resistivities in CaFeAsF with the electrical current in the abab plane in magnetic fields up to 45 T applied along the cc axis and obtained the corresponding conductivities via tensor inversion. We found that both the longitudinal and Hall conductivities approached zero above \sim40 T as the temperature was lowered to 0.4 K. Our analysis indicates that the Landau-level filling factor is ν\nu = 2 for both electrons and holes at these high field strengths, resulting in a total filling factor ν\nu = νholeνelectron\nu_{hole} - \nu_{electron} = 0. We therefore argue that the ν\nu = 0 quantum Hall state emerges under these conditions.

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@article{arxiv.2107.10460,
  title  = {Anomalous High-Field Magnetotransport in CaFeAsF due to the Quantum Hall Effect},
  author = {Taichi Terashima and Hishiro T. Hirose and Naoki Kikugawa and Shinya Uji and David Graf and Takao Morinari and Teng Wang and Gang Mu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.10460},
  year   = {2022}
}

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18 pages, 1 table, 4 figures