Magnetic breakdown spectrum of a Kramers-Weyl semimetal
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
2020-09-10 v2
Abstract
We calculate the Landau levels of a Kramers-Weyl semimetal thin slab in a perpendicular magnetic field . The coupling of Fermi arcs on opposite surfaces broadens the Landau levels with a band width that oscillates periodically in . We interpret the spectrum in terms of a one-dimensional superlattice induced by magnetic breakdown at Weyl points. The band width oscillations may be observed as -periodic magnetoconductance oscillations, at weaker fields and higher temperatures than the Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations due to Landau level quantization. No such spectrum appears in a generic Weyl semimetal, the Kramers degeneracy at time-reversally invariant momenta is essential.
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@article{arxiv.2004.06406,
title = {Magnetic breakdown spectrum of a Kramers-Weyl semimetal},
author = {G. Lemut and A. Donís Vela and M. J. Pacholski and J. Tworzydło and C. W. J. Beenakker},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.06406},
year = {2020}
}
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13 pages, 18 figures