Electron transport in nodal-line semimetals

Syzranov, S. V.; Skinner, B.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.96.161105

Electron transport in nodal-line semimetals

Journal Article · Wed Oct 11 00:00:00 EDT 2017 · Physical Review B

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.96.161105· OSTI ID:1388198

Syzranov, S. V. ^[1]; Skinner, B. ^[2]

Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD (United States); National Inst. of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD (United States); Monash Univ., Melbourne, VIC (Australia); Univ. of California, Santa Cruz, CA (United States)
Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)

Here, we study the electrical conductivity in a nodal-line semimetal with charged impurities. The screening of the Coulomb potential in this system is qualitatively different from what is found in conventional metals or semiconductors, with the screened potential

φ

decaying as

φ \propto 1 / r^{2}

over a wide interval of distances

r

. This unusual screening gives rise to a rich variety of conduction regimes as a function of temperature, doping level, and impurity concentration. Specifically, nodal-line semimetals exhibit a diverging mobility

\propto 1 / | μ |

in the limit of vanishing chemical potential

μ

, a linearly increasing dependence of the conductivity on temperature,

σ \propto T

, and a large weak-localization correction with a strongly anisotropic dependence on magnetic field.

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Research Organization:: Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) (United States). Center for Excitonics (CE)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0001088

OSTI ID:: 1388198

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1399069

Journal Information:: Physical Review B, Journal Name: Physical Review B Journal Issue: 16 Vol. 96; ISSN 2469-9950; ISSN PRBMDO

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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