English

Experimental Confirmation of Massive Dirac Fermions in Weak Charge-Ordering State in \alpha-(BEDT-TTF)_2I_3

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2021-02-02 v1

Abstract

The electronic structure of weak charge-ordering (CO) state just below the critical pressure in an organic conductor \alpha-(BEDT-TTF)_2I_3 was experimentally investigated using peak structure in the temperature dependence of interlayer magnetoresistance (MR). Based on a minimal model considering multiple Landau levels (LLs), we discuss herein the MR peak as characteristic to multilayer massless/massive Dirac fermion (DF) systems. MR measured in the weak CO state exhibited a clear MR peak, and its magnetic-field dependence was consistent with the LL behavior of a massive DF with a small gap. Results indicate that the weak CO state in \alpha-(BEDT-TTF)_2I_3 is a massive DF state.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.2101.06447,
  title  = {Experimental Confirmation of Massive Dirac Fermions in Weak Charge-Ordering State in \alpha-(BEDT-TTF)_2I_3},
  author = {Kenta Yoshimura and Mitsuyuki Sato and Toshihito Osada},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.06447},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

17 pages, 4 figures