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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 BB. The coupling of Fermi arcs on opposite surfaces broadens the Landau levels with a band width that oscillates periodically in 1/B1/B. 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 1/B1/B-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