Anomalous electronic structure and magnetoresistance in TaAs2

Luo, Yongkang; McDonald, R. D.; Rosa, P. F.  S.; Scott, B.; Wakeham, N.; Ghimire, N. J.; Bauer, E. D.; Thompson, J. D.; Ronning, F.

doi:10.1038/srep27294

Title: Anomalous electronic structure and magnetoresistance in TaAs₂

Journal Article · Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2016 · Scientific Reports

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/srep27294· OSTI ID:1259958

Luo, Yongkang ^[1]; McDonald, R. D. ^[1]; Rosa, P. F. S. ^[1]; Scott, B. ^[1]; Wakeham, N. ^[1]; Ghimire, N. J. ^[2]; Bauer, E. D. ^[1]; Thompson, J. D. ^[1]; Ronning, F. ^[1]

Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

We report that the change in resistance of a material in a magnetic field reflects its electronic state. In metals with weakly- or non-interacting electrons, the resistance typically increases upon the application of a magnetic field. In contrast, negative magnetoresistance may appear under some circumstances, e.g., in metals with anisotropic Fermi surfaces or with spin-disorder scattering and semimetals with Dirac or Weyl electronic structures. Here we show that the non-magnetic semimetal TaAs₂ possesses a very large negative magnetoresistance, with an unknown scattering mechanism. In conclusion, density functional calculations find that TaAs₂ is a new topological semimetal [Z₂ invariant (0;111)] without Dirac dispersion, demonstrating that a negative magnetoresistance in non-magnetic semimetals cannot be attributed uniquely to the Adler-Bell-Jackiw chiral anomaly of bulk Dirac/Weyl fermions.

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Research Organization:: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

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

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OSTI ID:: 1259958

Report Number(s):: LA-UR-16-20463

Journal Information:: Scientific Reports, Vol. 6; ISSN 2045-2322

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