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Three-quarter Dirac points, Landau levels and magnetization in $\alpha$-(BEDT-TTF)$_2$I$_3$

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2017-08-24 v1

Abstract

The energies as a function of the magnetic field (HH) and the pressure are studied theoretically in the tight-binding model for the two-dimensional organic conductor, α\alpha-(BEDT-TTF)2_2I3_3, in which massless Dirac fermions are realized. The effects of the uniaxial pressure (PP) are studied by using the pressure-dependent hopping parameters. The system is semi-metallic with the same area of an electron pocket and a hole pocket at P<3.0P < 3.0~kbar, where the energies (εD0(\varepsilon_{\rm D}^0) at the Dirac points locate below the Fermi energy (εF0(\varepsilon_{\rm F}^0) when H=0H=0. We find that at P=2.3P=2.3~kbar the Dirac cones are critically tilted. In that case a new type of band crossing occurs at "three-quarter"-Dirac points, i.e., the dispersion is quadratic in one direction and linear in the other three directions. We obtain new magnetic-field-dependences of the Landau levels (εn)(\varepsilon_n); εnεD0(nH)4/5\varepsilon_n-\varepsilon^0_{\textrm{D}} \propto (n H)^{4/5} at P=2.3P=2.3~kbar ("three-quarter"-Dirac points) and εnεF0(nH)2|\varepsilon_n-\varepsilon_{\rm F}^0| \propto (n H)^2 at P=3.0P=3.0~kbar (the critical pressure for the semi-metallic state). We also study the magnetization as a function of the inverse magnetic field. We obtain two types of quantum oscillations. One is the usual de Haas van Alphen (dHvA) oscillation, and the other is the unusual dHvA-like oscillation which is seen even in the system without the Fermi surface.

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@article{arxiv.1708.06867,
  title  = {Three-quarter Dirac points, Landau levels and magnetization in $\alpha$-(BEDT-TTF)$_2$I$_3$},
  author = {Keita Kishigi and Yasumasa Hasegawa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.06867},
  year   = {2017}
}

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25 pages, 31 figures