Magnetoinfrared spectroscopy of Landau levels and Zeeman splitting of three-dimensional massless Dirac Fermions in ZrTe5
Abstract
We present a magnetoinfrared spectroscopy study on a newly identified three-dimensional (3D) Dirac semimetal ZrTe5. We observe clear transitions between Landau levels and their further splitting under a magnetic field. Both the sequence of transitions and their field dependence follow quantitatively the relation expected for 3D massless Dirac fermions. The measurement also reveals an exceptionally low magnetic field needed to drive the compound into its quantum limit, demonstrating that ZrTe5 is an extremely clean system and ideal platform for studying 3D Dirac fermions. The splitting of the Landau levels provides direct, bulk spectroscopic evidence that a relatively weak magnetic field can produce a sizable Zeeman effect on the 3D Dirac fermions, which lifts the spin degeneracy of Landau levels. As a result, our analysis indicates that the compound evolves from a Dirac semimetal into a topological line-node semimetal under the current magnetic field configuration.
- Authors:
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- Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- National High Magnetic Field Lab., Tallahassee, FL (United States)
- Peking Univ., Beijing (China)
- Peking Univ., Beijing (China); Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Beijing (China)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1235865
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1224152
- Report Number(s):
- BNL-111657-2015-JA
Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007; PRLTAO; R&D Project: PO010; KC0201060
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC00112704
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review Letters
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 115; Journal Issue: 17; Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY
Citation Formats
R. Y. Chen, Gu, G. D., Chen, Z. G., Song, X. -Y., Schneeloch, J. A., Wang, F., and Wang, N. L. Magnetoinfrared spectroscopy of Landau levels and Zeeman splitting of three-dimensional massless Dirac Fermions in ZrTe5. United States: N. p., 2015.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.176404.
R. Y. Chen, Gu, G. D., Chen, Z. G., Song, X. -Y., Schneeloch, J. A., Wang, F., & Wang, N. L. Magnetoinfrared spectroscopy of Landau levels and Zeeman splitting of three-dimensional massless Dirac Fermions in ZrTe5. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.176404
R. Y. Chen, Gu, G. D., Chen, Z. G., Song, X. -Y., Schneeloch, J. A., Wang, F., and Wang, N. L. Thu .
"Magnetoinfrared spectroscopy of Landau levels and Zeeman splitting of three-dimensional massless Dirac Fermions in ZrTe5". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.176404. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1235865.
@article{osti_1235865,
title = {Magnetoinfrared spectroscopy of Landau levels and Zeeman splitting of three-dimensional massless Dirac Fermions in ZrTe5},
author = {R. Y. Chen and Gu, G. D. and Chen, Z. G. and Song, X. -Y. and Schneeloch, J. A. and Wang, F. and Wang, N. L.},
abstractNote = {We present a magnetoinfrared spectroscopy study on a newly identified three-dimensional (3D) Dirac semimetal ZrTe5. We observe clear transitions between Landau levels and their further splitting under a magnetic field. Both the sequence of transitions and their field dependence follow quantitatively the relation expected for 3D massless Dirac fermions. The measurement also reveals an exceptionally low magnetic field needed to drive the compound into its quantum limit, demonstrating that ZrTe5 is an extremely clean system and ideal platform for studying 3D Dirac fermions. The splitting of the Landau levels provides direct, bulk spectroscopic evidence that a relatively weak magnetic field can produce a sizable Zeeman effect on the 3D Dirac fermions, which lifts the spin degeneracy of Landau levels. As a result, our analysis indicates that the compound evolves from a Dirac semimetal into a topological line-node semimetal under the current magnetic field configuration.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.176404},
journal = {Physical Review Letters},
number = 17,
volume = 115,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Oct 22 00:00:00 EDT 2015},
month = {Thu Oct 22 00:00:00 EDT 2015}
}
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