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We report transport properties for layered BiCh2-based (Ch = S, Se) superconductors LaO1-xFxBiS2-ySey (x = 0.2, 0.5, y = 0-1.05) and the observation of weak antilocalization (WAL). Electrical resistivity and Hall coefficients for the…

Thin films of topological insulator Bi_2Se_3 were deposited directly on insulating ferromagnetic EuS. Unusual negative magnetoresistance was observed near the zero field below the Curie temperature (T_C), resembling the weak localization…

The weak antilocalization (WAL) effect is known as a quantum correction to the classical conductivity, which never appeared in two-dimensional magnets. In this work, we reported the observation of a WAL effect in the van der Waals…

Weak antilocalization (WAL) effect is commonly observed in 2D systems, or 3D topological insulators, topological semimetal systems. Here we report the clear sign of WAL effect in high quality Ta$_{0.7}$Nb$_{0.3}$Sb$_2$ single crystals, in…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-07-26 Lei Guo , Meng Xu , Lei Chen , Ting Wei Chen , Weiyao Zhao , Xiaoling Wang , Shuai Dong , Ren-Kui Zheng

A large number of half-Heusler compounds have been recently proposed as three-dimensional (3D) topological insulators (TIs) with tunable physical properties.However, no transport measurements associated with the topological surface states…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-08-08 Guizhou Xu , Wenhong Wang , Xiaoming Zhang , Yin Du , Enke Liu , Shouguo Wang , Guangheng Wu , Zhongyuan Liu , Xi Xiang Zhang

Strongly correlated Kondo insulator SmB6 is known for its peculiar low temperature residual conduction, which has recently been demonstrated to arise from a robust metallic surface state, as predicted by the theory of topological Kondo…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-11-15 S. Thomas , D. J. Kim , S. B. Chung , T. Grant , Z. Fisk , Jing Xia

Topological insulators with their topological protected surface states are highly promising quantum materials. In this article the micro-flakes of single-crystalline topological insulators Bi2Te3 and Sb2Te3 are explored through physical…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-06-23 Prince Sharma , Yogesh Kumar , V. P. S. Awana , Mahesh Kumar

Milling of 2D flakes is a simple method to fabricate nanomaterial of any desired shape and size. Inherently milling process can introduce the impurity or disorder which might show exotic quantum transport phenomenon when studied at the low…

Strong spin-orbit coupling in topological insulators results in the ubiquitously observed weak antilocalization feature in their magnetoresistance. Here we present magnetoresistance measurements in ultra thin films of the topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-04 Li Zhang , Merav Dolev , Qi I. Yang , Robert H. Hammond , Bo Zhou , Alexander Palevski , Yulin Chen , Aharon Kapitulnik

Topological materials have attracted considerable experimental and theoretical attention. They exhibit strong spin-orbit coupling both in the band structure (intrinsic) and in the impurity potentials (extrinsic), although the latter is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-17 Weizhe Edward Liu , Ewelina M. Hankiewicz , Dimitrie Culcer

A combination of out-of-plane and in-plane magnetoconductance (MC) study in topological insulators (TI) is often used as an experimental technique to probe weak anti-localization (WAL) response of the topological surface states (TSSs).…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-09-07 Satyaki Sasmal , Joynarayan Mukherjee , Dhavala Suri , Karthik V. Raman

We report electron transport studies in an encapsulated few-layer WTe$_2$ at low temperatures and high magnetic fields. The magnetoconductance reveals a temperature-induced crossover between weak antilocalization (WAL) and weak localization…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-10-07 Xurui Zhang , John M. Woods , Judy J. Cha , Xiaoyan Shi

Using the Feynman diagram techniques, we derive the finite-temperature conductivity and magnetoconductivity formulas from the quantum interference and electron-electron interaction, for a three-dimensional disordered Weyl semimetal. For a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-15 Hai-Zhou Lu , Shun-Qing Shen

We report that thin films of a prototype topological insulator, Bi$_{2}$Se$_{3}$, can be epitaxially grown onto the (0001) surface of BaFe$_{12}$O$_{19}$(BaM), a magnetic insulator with high Curie temperature and large perpendicular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 Wenmin Yang , Shuo Yang , Qinghua Zhang , Yang Xu , Shipeng Shen , Jian Liao , Jing Teng , Cewen Nan , Lin Gu , Young Sun , Kehui Wu , Yongqing Li

Ni$_3$In$_2$S$_2$ is the most recent entrant into the family of topological insulator (TI) materials, the same exhibits very high MR in a low-temperature regime. Here, we report the crystal growth, the structural, micro-structural, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-06 Kapil Kumar , Yogesh Kumar , V. P. S. Awana

We show that a number of transport properties in topological insulator (TI) Bi2Se3 exhibit striking thickness-dependences over a range of up to five orders of thickness (3 nm - 170 \mu m). Volume carrier density decreased with thickness,…

The two-dimensional (2D) surface state of the three-dimensional strong topological insulator (STI) is fundamentally distinct from other 2D electron systems in that the Fermi arc encircles an odd number of Dirac points. The TI surface is in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-28 Dohun Kim , Paul Syers , Nicholas P. Butch , Johnpierre Paglione , Michael S. Fuhrer

Many exotic physics anticipated in topological insulators require a gap to be opened for their topologica surface states by breaking time reversal symmetry. The gap opening has been achieved by doping magnetic impurities, which however…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-27 Guolin Zheng , Ning Wang , Jiyong Yang , Weike Wang , Haifeng Du , Wei Ning , Zhaorong Yang , Hai-Zhou Lu , Yuheng Zhang , Mingliang Tian

In this study, we address the phase coherent transport in a sub-micrometer-sized Hall bar made of epitaxial Bi2Se3 thin film by probing the weak antilocalization (WAL) and the magnetoresistance fluctuation below 22 K. The WAL effect is well…

The electronic transport experiments on topological insulators exhibit a dilemma. A negative cusp in magnetoconductivity is widely believed as a quantum transport signature of the topological surface states, which are immune from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-09 Hai-Zhou Lu , Shun-Qing Shen