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Extremely large magnetoresistance and Fermi surface topology of PrSb

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2017-09-20 v1 Materials Science

Abstract

We report magnetotransport measurements of PrSb in high magnetic fields. Our results show that PrSb exhibits extremely large magnetoresistance(XMR) at low temperatures. Meanwhile angle-dependent magnetoresistance measurements were used to probe the Fermi surface via Shubnikov-de Haas (SdH) oscillations. The angular dependence of the frequencies of the α\alpha-branch indicate a two-dimensional character for this Fermi surface sheet, while the effective mass of this branch as a function of angle shows a four-fold signature. The evolution of the Fermi surface with field was also studied up to 32~T. An enlargement of the Fermi surface up to 14~T is observed, before the oscillation frequencies become constant at higher fields. Meanwhile our analysis of the residual Landau index from the high field data reveals a zero Berry phase and therefore trivial topology of the Fermi surface.

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@article{arxiv.1707.04162,
  title  = {Extremely large magnetoresistance and Fermi surface topology of PrSb},
  author = {F. Wu and C. Y. Guo and M. Smidman and J. L. Zhang and H. Q. Yuan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.04162},
  year   = {2017}
}

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6 pages, 4 figures