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Anomalous negative longitudinal magnetoresistance and violation of Ohm's law deep in the topological insulating regime in Bi[Formula: see text] Sb[Formula: see text]

Bi[Formula: see text] Sb[Formula: see text] is a topological insulator (TI) for [Formula: see text] –0.20. Close to the Topological phase transition at [Formula: see text] , a magnetic field induced Weyl semi-metal (WSM) state is stabilized due to the splitting of the Dirac cone into two Weyl cones...

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Autores principales: Vashist, Amit, Gopal, R. K., Singh, Yogesh
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Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8062501/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33888750
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-87780-0
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description Bi[Formula: see text] Sb[Formula: see text] is a topological insulator (TI) for [Formula: see text] –0.20. Close to the Topological phase transition at [Formula: see text] , a magnetic field induced Weyl semi-metal (WSM) state is stabilized due to the splitting of the Dirac cone into two Weyl cones of opposite chirality. A signature of the Weyl state is the observation of a Chiral anomaly [negative longitudinal magnetoresistance (LMR)] and a violation of the Ohm’s law (non-linear [Formula: see text] ). We report the unexpected discovery of Chiral anomaly-like features in the whole range ([Formula: see text] ) of the TI state. This points to a field induced WSM state in an extended x range and not just near the topological transition at [Formula: see text] . Surprisingly, the strongest Weyl phase is found at [Formula: see text] with a non-saturating negative LMR much larger than observed for [Formula: see text] . The negative LMR vanishes rapidly with increasing angle between B and I. Additionally, non-linear I–V is found for [Formula: see text] indicating a violation of Ohm’s law. This unexpected observation of a strong Weyl state in the whole TI regime in Bi[Formula: see text] Sb[Formula: see text] points to a gap in our understanding of the detailed crystal and electronic structure evolution in this alloy system.
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spelling pubmed-80625012021-04-23 Anomalous negative longitudinal magnetoresistance and violation of Ohm's law deep in the topological insulating regime in Bi[Formula: see text] Sb[Formula: see text] Vashist, Amit Gopal, R. K. Singh, Yogesh Sci Rep Article Bi[Formula: see text] Sb[Formula: see text] is a topological insulator (TI) for [Formula: see text] –0.20. Close to the Topological phase transition at [Formula: see text] , a magnetic field induced Weyl semi-metal (WSM) state is stabilized due to the splitting of the Dirac cone into two Weyl cones of opposite chirality. A signature of the Weyl state is the observation of a Chiral anomaly [negative longitudinal magnetoresistance (LMR)] and a violation of the Ohm’s law (non-linear [Formula: see text] ). We report the unexpected discovery of Chiral anomaly-like features in the whole range ([Formula: see text] ) of the TI state. This points to a field induced WSM state in an extended x range and not just near the topological transition at [Formula: see text] . Surprisingly, the strongest Weyl phase is found at [Formula: see text] with a non-saturating negative LMR much larger than observed for [Formula: see text] . The negative LMR vanishes rapidly with increasing angle between B and I. Additionally, non-linear I–V is found for [Formula: see text] indicating a violation of Ohm’s law. This unexpected observation of a strong Weyl state in the whole TI regime in Bi[Formula: see text] Sb[Formula: see text] points to a gap in our understanding of the detailed crystal and electronic structure evolution in this alloy system. Nature Publishing Group UK 2021-04-22 /pmc/articles/PMC8062501/ /pubmed/33888750 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-87780-0 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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Anomalous negative longitudinal magnetoresistance and violation of Ohm's law deep in the topological insulating regime in Bi[Formula: see text] Sb[Formula: see text]
title Anomalous negative longitudinal magnetoresistance and violation of Ohm's law deep in the topological insulating regime in Bi[Formula: see text] Sb[Formula: see text]
title_full Anomalous negative longitudinal magnetoresistance and violation of Ohm's law deep in the topological insulating regime in Bi[Formula: see text] Sb[Formula: see text]
title_fullStr Anomalous negative longitudinal magnetoresistance and violation of Ohm's law deep in the topological insulating regime in Bi[Formula: see text] Sb[Formula: see text]
title_full_unstemmed Anomalous negative longitudinal magnetoresistance and violation of Ohm's law deep in the topological insulating regime in Bi[Formula: see text] Sb[Formula: see text]
title_short Anomalous negative longitudinal magnetoresistance and violation of Ohm's law deep in the topological insulating regime in Bi[Formula: see text] Sb[Formula: see text]
title_sort anomalous negative longitudinal magnetoresistance and violation of ohm's law deep in the topological insulating regime in bi[formula: see text] sb[formula: see text]
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8062501/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33888750
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-87780-0
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