Anisotropic magnetotransport and exotic longitudinal linear magnetoresistance in WTe2 crystals

Zhao, Yanfei; Liu, Haiwen; Yan, Jiaqiang; An, Wei; Liu, Jun; Zhang, Xi; Wang, Huichao; Liu, Yi; Jiang, Hua; Li, Qing; Wang, Yong; Li, Xin-Zheng; Mandrus, David; Xie, X. C.; Pan, Minghu; Wang, Jian

doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.92.041104

Title: Anisotropic magnetotransport and exotic longitudinal linear magnetoresistance in WTe₂ crystals

Journal Article · Mon Jul 06 00:00:00 EDT 2015 · Physical Review. B, Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.92.041104· OSTI ID:1265815

Zhao, Yanfei ^[1]; Liu, Haiwen ^[1]; Yan, Jiaqiang ^[2]; An, Wei ^[3]; Liu, Jun ^[4]; Zhang, Xi ^[1]; Wang, Huichao ^[1]; Liu, Yi ^[1]; Jiang, Hua ^[5]; Li, Qing ^[6]; Wang, Yong ^[4]; Li, Xin-Zheng ^[3]; Mandrus, David ^[2]; Xie, X. C. ^[1]; Pan, Minghu ^[7]; Wang, Jian ^[1]

Peking Univ., Beijing (China); Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Beijing (China)
Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States); Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Beijing (China); Peking Univ., Beijing (China)
Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou (China).
Soochow Univ., Suzhou (China)
Soochow Univ., Jiangsu (China)
Huazhong Univ. of Science and Technology, Wuhan (China)

Recently, the WTe₂ semimetal, as a typical layered transition-metal dichalcogenide, attracted much attention due to an extremely large, non-saturating parabolic magnetoresistance in the perpendicular field. Here, we report a systematic study of the angular dependence of the magnetoresistance in a WTe₂ single crystal. The significant anisotropic magnetotransport behavior in different magnetic field directions and violation of the Kohler's rule are observed. Unexpectedly, when the applied field and excitation current are both parallel to the tungsten chains of WTe₂, an exotic large longitudinal linear magnetoresistance as high as 1200% at 15T and 2K is identified. These results imply that the WTe₂ semimetal, due to its balanced hole and electron populations, seems to be the first material for which a large longitudinal linear magnetoresistance appears when the external magnetic field is parallel to the applied current. Finally, our work may stimulate studies of double-carrier correlated materials and the corresponding quantum physics.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725

OSTI ID:: 1265815

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1198656

Journal Information:: Physical Review. B, Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, Vol. 92, Issue 4; ISSN 1098-0121

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