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Quantum oscillations and electronic structure in the large-Chern number topological chiral semimetal PtGa

Materials Science 2020-10-20 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

We report the magnetoresistance(MR), de Haas-van Alphen (dHvA) oscillations and the electronic structures of single crystal PtGa. The large unsaturated MR is observed with the magnetic field B//[111]. Evident dHvA oscillations with B//[001] configuration have been observed, from which twelve fundamental frequencies are extracted and the spin-orbit coupling effect (SOC) induced band splitting is revealed. The light cyclotron effective masses are extracted from the fitting by the thermal damping term of the Lifshitz-Kosevich (LK) formula. Combining with the calculated frequencies from the first-principles calculations, the dHvA frequencies F1_1/F3_3 and F11_{11}/F12_{12} are confirmed to originate from the electron pockets at Γ\Gamma and R, respectively. The first-principles calculations also reveal the existence of spin-3/2 RSW fermion and time-reversal (TR) doubling of the spin-1 excitation at Γ\Gamma and R with large Chern number ±4\pm4 when SOC is included.

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@article{arxiv.2003.13397,
  title  = {Quantum oscillations and electronic structure in the large-Chern number topological chiral semimetal PtGa},
  author = {Sheng Xu and Liqin Zhou and Xiao-Yan Wang and Huan Wang and Jun-Fa lin and Xiang-Yu Zeng and Peng Cheng and Hongming Weng and Tian-Long Xia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.13397},
  year   = {2020}
}

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5 pages, 4 figures