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We report magneto-transport studies of topological insulator Bi_{2}Te_{3} thin films grown by pulsed laser deposition. A non-saturating linear-like magneto-resistance (MR) is observed at low temperatures in the magnetic field range from a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-18 S. X. Zhang , R. D. McDonald , A. Shekhter , Z. X. Bi , Y. Li , Q. X. Jia , S. T. Picraux

We report on electronic transport measurements of electrostatically gated nano-devices of the semimetal WTe\textsubscript{2}. High mobility metallic behavior is achieved in the 2D limit by encapsulating thin flakes in an inert atmosphere.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-01 Valla Fatemi , Quinn D. Gibson , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Robert J. Cava , Pablo Jarillo-Herrero

Discovery of Weyl fermions in semimetallic tansition-metal monopnictides is a major breakthrough in condensed matter physics. A Weyl semimetal is characterized by the existence of robust Weyl points and unclosed topological surface states…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-06-22 Chandra Shekhar , Vicky Süss , Marcus Schmidt

Tungsten ditelluride (WTe2) is a layered material that exhibits excellent magnetoresistance and thermoelectric behaviors, which are deeply related with its distorted orthorhombic phase that may critically affect the lattice dynamics. Here,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-14 Younghee Kim , Young In Jhon , June Park , Jae Hun Kim , Seok Lee , Young Min Jhon

Through a thorough magneto-transport study of antiferromagnetic topological insulator MnBi2Te4 (MBT) thick films, a positive linear magnetoresistance (LMR) with a two-dimensional (2D) character is found in high perpendicular magnetic fields…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-01-04 X. Lei , L. Zhou , Z. Y. Hao , X. Z. Ma , C. Ma , Y. Q. Wang , P. B. Chen , B. C. Ye , L. Wang , F. Ye , J. N. Wang , J. W. Mei , H. T. He

A positive, non-saturating and dominantly linear magnetoresistance is demonstrated to occur in the surface state of a topological insulator having a wavevector-linear energy dispersion together with a finite positive Zeeman energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-28 C. M. Wang , X. L. Lei

The extremely large magnetoresistance (XMR) in nonmagnetic semimetals has inspired growing interest owing to both intriguing physics and potential applications. We report results of synchrotron X-ray diffraction (SXRD) and electrical…

Linear magnetoresistance (LMR) is a widespread phenomenon observed in a host of quantum materials ranging from semiconductor nanostructures to quantum critical and strange metals. While multiple scenarios to explain LMR have been proposed,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-13 A. Kool , D. Pizzirani , P. Tinnemans , S. Wiedmann , F. Flicker , J. van Wezel , N. E. Hussey , R. D. H. Hinlopen

In addition to the weak antilocalization cusp observed in the magnetoresistance (MR) of topological insulators at low temperatures and low magnetic fields, we find that the high-field MR in Bi2Te2Se is linear in field. At fields up to B=14T…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Badih A. Assaf , Thomas Cardinal , Peng Wei , Ferhat Katmis , Jagadeesh S. Moodera , Don Heiman

We report studies of the magnetoresistance (MR) in a two-dimensional electron system in (100) Si-inversion layers, for perpendicular and parallel orientations of the current with respect to the magnetic field in the 2D-plane. The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 V. M. Pudalov , G. Brunthaler , A. Prinz , G. Bauer

Either in bulk form, or when exfoliated into atomically thin crystals, layered transition metal dichalcogenides are continuously leading to the discovery of new phenomena. The latest example is provided by 1T'-WTe$_2$, a semimetal recently…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Lin Wang , Ignacio Gutiérrez-Lezama , Céline Barreteau , Nicolas Ubrig , Enrico Giannini , A. F. Morpurgo

We report the crystal and electronic structures of a non-centrosymmetric quasi-two-dimensional (2D), candidate of topological semimetal AuTe2Br. The Fermi surface of this layered compound consists of 2D-like, topological trivial electron…

Engineering devices with a large electrical response to magnetic field is of fundamental importance for a range of applications such as magnetic field sensing and magnetic read-heads. We show that a colossal non-saturating linear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-28 M. A. Aamir , Srijit Goswami , Matthias Baenninger , Vikram Tripathi , Michael Pepper , Ian Farrer , David A. Ritchie , Arindam Ghosh

Linear magnetoresistance is a phenomenon that has been observed in a few topological compounds that originate from classical and quantum phenomena. Here, we performed electrical transport measurements, in zero and applied magnetic fields,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-08-19 Vikas Saini , Souvik Sasmal , Ruta Kulkarni , Arumugam Thamizhavel

Two-component systems with equal concentrations of electrons and holes exhibit non-saturating, linear magnetoresistance in classically strong magnetic fields. The effect is predicted to occur in finite-size samples at charge neutrality in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-28 P. S. Alekseev , A. P. Dmitriev , I. V. Gornyi , V. Yu. Kachorovskii , B. N. Narozhny , M. Schuett , M. Titov

We report measurements of the magnetoresistance in the charge density wave (CDW) state of rare-earth tritellurides, namely TbTe$_3$ and HoTe$_3$. The magnetic field dependence of magnetoresistance exhibits a temperature dependent crossover…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-01-17 Alexander A. Sinchenko , Pavel D. Grigoriev , Pascal Lejay , Pierre Monceau

While pyrite-type PtBi2 with face-centered cubic structure has been predicted to be a three-dimensional (3D) Dirac semimetal, experimental study on its physical properties remains absent. Here we report the angular-dependent…

We report the magneto-transport measurements of thin film devices of the topological Weyl semimetal WTe2 with the applied current along and vertical to the in-plane directions. The device is composed of a Van der Waals thin film of WTe2…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-07-05 Y. S. Liu , H. Xiao , C. Zhang , C. W. Zhang , Y. G. Shi , T. Hu , C. M. Schneider

We observe a strong negative magnetoresistance at non-quantizing magnetic fields in a high-mobility two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG). This strong negative magnetoresistance consists of a narrow peak around zero magnetic field and a huge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-05 L. Bockhorn , I. V. Gornyi , D. Schuh , C. Reichl , W. Wegscheider , R. J. Haug

We performed the angle dependent magnetoresistance (MR), Hall effect measurements, the temperature dependent magneto-thermoelectric power (TEP) S(T) measurements, and the first-principles calculations to study the electronic properties of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-06-21 F. C. Chen , H. Y. Lv , X. Luo , W. J. Lu , Q. L. Pei , G. T. Lin , Y. Y. Han , X. B. Zhu , W. H. Song , Y. P. Sun