Magnetoinfrared spectroscopy of Landau levels and Zeeman splitting of three-dimensional massless Dirac Fermions in ZrTe5

Gu, G. D.; Chen, Z. G.; Song, X. -Y.; Schneeloch, J. A.; Wang, F.; Wang, N. L.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.176404

Title: Magnetoinfrared spectroscopy of Landau levels and Zeeman splitting of three-dimensional massless Dirac Fermions in ZrTe₅

Journal Article · Thu Oct 22 00:00:00 EDT 2015 · Physical Review Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.176404· OSTI ID:1235865

Gu, G. D. ^[1]; Chen, Z. G. ^[2]; Song, X. -Y. ^[3]; Schneeloch, J. A. ^[1]; Wang, F. ^[4]; Wang, N. L. ^[4]

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)

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.

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Research Organization:: Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)

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

Grant/Contract Number:: SC00112704

OSTI ID:: 1235865

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1224152

Report Number(s):: BNL-111657-2015-JA; PRLTAO; R&D Project: PO010; KC0201060

Journal Information:: Physical Review Letters, Vol. 115, Issue 17; ISSN 0031-9007

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