Extremely high conductivity observed in the triple point topological metal MoP
Abstract
Weyl and Dirac fermions have created much attention in condensed matter physics and materials science. Recently, several additional distinct types of fermions have been predicted. Here, we report ultra-high electrical conductivity in MoP at low temperature, which has recently been established as a triple point Fermion material. Here we show that the electrical resistivity is 6 n-ohm cm at 2 K with a large mean free path of 11 microns. de Haas-van Alphen oscillations reveal spin splitting of the Fermi surfaces. In contrast to noble metals with similar conductivity and number of carriers, the magnetoresistance in MoP does not saturate up to 9 T at 2 K. Interestingly, the momentum relaxing time of the electrons is found to be more than 15 times larger than the quantum coherence time. This difference between the scattering scales shows that momentum conserving scattering dominates in MoP at low temperatures.
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@article{arxiv.1703.03736,
title = {Extremely high conductivity observed in the triple point topological metal MoP},
author = {Nitesh Kumar and Yan Sun and Michael Nicklas and Sarah J. Watzman and Olga Young and Inge Leermakers and Jacob Hornung and Johannes Klotz and Johannes Gooth and Kaustuv Manna and Vicky Süß and Satya N. Guin and Tobias Förster and Marcus Schmidt and Lukas Muechler and Binghai Yan and Peter Werner and Walter Schnelle and Uli Zeitler and Jochen Wosnitza and Stuart S. P. Parkin and Claudia Felser and Chandra Shekhar},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.03736},
year = {2019}
}
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