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Magnetoresistance and Scaling Laws in Type-II Weyl Semimetal WP_2

Materials Science 2021-09-01 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Other Condensed Matter Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

Topological materials with extremely large magnetoresistance exhibit a prognostic feature of resistivity turn-on behaviour. This occurs when the temperature dependence of resistivity changes from metallic to semiconducting characteristics on application of external magnetic field above a threshold value. Here, we study the magneto-transport properties of type-II Weyl Semimetal WP2. We find that semi-classical theories of magnetoresistance are consistent with our data without the need to invoke topological surface states. Our findings in this work provides an alternative basis to understand the temperature dependence of magnetoresistance in topological materials.

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@article{arxiv.2108.13981,
  title  = {Magnetoresistance and Scaling Laws in Type-II Weyl Semimetal WP_2},
  author = {V. Nagpal and K. S. Jat and S. Patnaik},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.13981},
  year   = {2021}
}