Magnetic freeze-out and anomalous Hall effect in ZrTe5

Gourgout, Adrien; Leroux, Maxime; Smirr, Jean-Loup; Massoudzadegan, Maxime; Lobo, Ricardo M.; Vignolles, David; Proust, Cyril; Berger, Helmuth; Li, Qiang; Gu, Genda; Homes, Christopher C.; Akrap, Ana; Fauqué, Benoît

doi:10.1038/s41535-022-00478-y

Magnetic freeze-out and anomalous Hall effect in ZrTe₅

Journal Article · Sat Jul 02 00:00:00 EDT 2022 · npj Quantum Materials

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41535-022-00478-y· OSTI ID:1845423

Gourgout, Adrien ^[1]; ^[2]; Smirr, Jean-Loup ^[3]; Massoudzadegan, Maxime ^[2]; ^[1]; ^[2]; ^[2]; Berger, Helmuth ^[4]; Li, Qiang ^[5]; Gu, Genda ^[6]; ^[6]; Akrap, Ana ^[7]; ^[1]

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) (France); Sorbonne Univ., Paris (France); Univ. Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette (France)
Univ. of Toulouse (France)
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) (France); Univ. Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette (France)
Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne (EPFL) (Switzerland)
Stony Brook Univ., NY (United States); Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
University of Fribourg (Switzerland)

The ultra-quantum limit is achieved when a magnetic field confines an electron gas in its lowest spin-polarised Landau level. Here we show that in this limit, electron doped ZrTe₅ shows a metal-insulator transition followed by a sign change of the Hall and Seebeck effects at low temperature. We attribute this transition to a magnetic freeze-out of charge carriers on the ionized impurities. The reduction of the charge carrier density gives way to an anomalous Hall response of the spin-polarised electrons. This behavior, at odds with the usual magnetic freeze-out scenario, occurs in this Dirac metal because of its tiny Fermi energy, extremely narrow band gap and a large g-factor. We discuss the different possible sources (intrinsic or extrinsic) for this anomalous Hall contribution.

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

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

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0012704

OSTI ID:: 1845423

Report Number(s):: BNL-222762-2022-JAAM

Journal Information:: npj Quantum Materials, Journal Name: npj Quantum Materials Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 7; ISSN 2397-4648

Publisher:: Nature Publishing GroupCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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