Extremely large magnetoresistance is realized in the nonmagnetic layered metal PdCoO2. In spite of a highly conducting metallic behavior with a simple quasi-two-dimensional hexagonal Fermi surface, the interlayer resistance reaches up to 35000% for the field along the [1-10] direction. Furthermore, the temperature dependence of the resistance becomes nonmetallic for this field direction, while it remains metallic for fields along the [110] direction. Such severe and anisotropic destruction of the interlayer coherence by a magnetic field on a simple Fermi surface is ascribable to orbital motion of carriers on the Fermi surface driven by the Lorentz force, but seems to have been largely overlooked until now.
@article{arxiv.1307.6503,
title = {Extremely Large Magnetoresistance in the Nonmagnetic Metal PdCoO2},
author = {Hiroshi Takatsu and Jun J. Ishikawa and Shingo Yonezawa and Harukazu Yoshino and Tatsuya Shishidou and Tamio Oguchi and Keizo Murata and Yoshiteru Maeno},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1307.6503},
year = {2013}
}