Origin of the extremely large magnetoresistance in the semimetal YSb

Xu, J.; Ghimire, N. J.; Jiang, J. S.; Xiao, Z. L.; Botana, A. S.; Wang, Y. L.; Hao, Y.; Pearson, J. E.; Kwok, W. K.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.96.075159

Title: Origin of the extremely large magnetoresistance in the semimetal YSb

Journal Article · Tue Aug 29 00:00:00 EDT 2017 · Physical Review B

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.96.075159· OSTI ID:1393826

Xu, J. ^[1]; Ghimire, N. J. ^[2]; Jiang, J. S. ^[2]; Xiao, Z. L. ^[1]; Botana, A. S. ^[2]; Wang, Y. L. ^[3]; Hao, Y. ^[4]; Pearson, J. E. ^[2]; Kwok, W. K. ^[2]

Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Materials Science Division; Northern Illinois Univ., DeKalb, IL (United States). Dept. of Physics
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Materials Science Division
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Materials Science Division; Univ. of Notre Dame, IN (United States). Dept. of Physics
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Materials Science Division; Univ. of Illinois, Chicago, IL (United States). Dept. of Physics

Extremely large magnetoresistance (XMR) was recently discovered in YSb but its origin, along with that of many other XMR materials, is an active subject of debate. Here we demonstrate that YSb, with a cubic crystalline lattice and anisotropic bulk electron Fermi pockets, can be an excellent candidate for revealing the origin of XMR. We carried out angle dependent Shubnikov – de Haas quantum oscillation measurements to determine the volume and shape of the Fermi pockets. In addition, by investigating both Hall and longitudinal magnetoresistivities, we reveal that the origin of XMR in YSb lies in its carrier high mobility with a diminishing Hall factor that is obtained from the ratio of the Hall and longitudinal magentoresistivities. The high mobility leads to a strong magnetic field dependence of the longitudinal magnetoconductivity while a diminishing Hall factor reveals the latent XMR hidden in the longitudinal magnetoconductivity whose inverse has a nearly quadratic magnetic-field dependence. The Hall factor highlights the deviation of the measured magnetoresistivity from its full potential value and provides a general formulation to reveal the origin of XMR behavior in high mobility materials and of nonsaturating MR behavior as a whole. Our approach can be readily applied to other XMR materials.

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Research Organization:: Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Science Foundation (NSF)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-06CH11357; DMR-1407175

OSTI ID:: 1393826

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1377640

Journal Information:: Physical Review B, Vol. 96, Issue 7; ISSN 2469-9950

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