The reverse quantum limit and its implications for unconventional quantum oscillations in YbB12

Mizzi, Christopher A.; Kushwaha, Satya K.; Rosa, Priscila F. S.; Phelan, W. Adam; Arellano, David C.; Pressley, Lucas A.; McQueen, Tyrel M.; Chan, Mun K.; Harrison, Neil

doi:10.1038/s41467-024-45801-2

Title: The reverse quantum limit and its implications for unconventional quantum oscillations in YbB12

Journal Article · Wed Feb 21 00:00:00 EST 2024 · Nature Communications

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-45801-2· OSTI ID:2310402

Mizzi, Christopher A.; Kushwaha, Satya K.;

; Phelan, W. Adam; Arellano, David C.; Pressley, Lucas A.;

;

Abstract The quantum limit in a Fermi liquid, realized when a single Landau level is occupied in strong magnetic fields, gives rise to unconventional states, including the fractional quantum Hall effect and excitonic insulators. Stronger interactions in metals with nearly localized f -electron degrees of freedom increase the likelihood of these unconventional states. However, access to the quantum limit is typically impeded by the tendency of f -electrons to polarize in a strong magnetic field, consequently weakening the interactions. In this study, we propose that the quantum limit in such systems must be approached in reverse, starting from an insulating state at zero magnetic field. In this scenario, Landau levels fill in the reverse order compared to regular metals and are closely linked to a field-induced insulator-to-metal transition. We identify YbB ₁₂ as a prime candidate for observing this effect and propose the presence of an excitonic insulator state near this transition.

View Journal Article

Cite

Export

Save

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

Grant/Contract Number:: 20210320ER; LANLF101; SC0019331

OSTI ID:: 2310402

Journal Information:: Nature Communications, Journal Name: Nature Communications Vol. 15 Journal Issue: 1; ISSN 2041-1723

Publisher:: Nature Publishing GroupCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United Kingdom

Language:: English

References (40)

Quantum Oscillations without a Fermi Surface and the Anomalous de Haas–van Alphen Effect Knolle, Johannes; Cooper, Nigel R. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 115, Issue 14 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.146401	journal	September 2015
Two-Dimensional Magnetotransport in the Extreme Quantum Limit Tsui, D. C.; Stormer, H. L.; Gossard, A. C. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 48, Issue 22 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.48.1559	journal	May 1982
Electronic Phase Transition of Graphite in a Strong Magnetic Field Yoshioka, Daijiro; Fukuyama, Hidetoshi Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, Vol. 50, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1143/JPSJ.50.725	journal	March 1981
Sequential Spin Polarization of the Fermi Surface Pockets in ${URu}_{2} {Si}_{2}$ and Its Implications for the Hidden Order Altarawneh, M. M.; Harrison, N.; Sebastian, S. E. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 106, Issue 14 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.146403	journal	April 2011
Electronic properties of graphene in a strong magnetic field Goerbig, M. O. Reviews of Modern Physics, Vol. 83, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1103/RevModPhys.83.1193	journal	November 2011
Field-induced valence fluctuations in ${YbB}_{12}$ Kurihara, R.; Miyake, A.; Tokunaga, M. Physical Review B, Vol. 103, Issue 11 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.103.115103	journal	March 2021
Energy spectrum and quantum Hall effect in twisted bilayer graphene Moon, Pilkyung; Koshino, Mikito Physical Review B, Vol. 85, Issue 19 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.85.195458	journal	May 2012
Anisotropic magnetoresistance and collapse of the energy gap in Yb _{1- x} Lu _x B ₁₂ Iga, F.; Suga, K.; Takeda, K. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Vol. 200, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/200/1/012064	journal	January 2010
Quantum Oscillation from In-Gap States and a Non-Hermitian Landau Level Problem Shen, Huitao; Fu, Liang Physical Review Letters, Vol. 121, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.026403	journal	July 2018
Possible States for a Three-Dimensional Electron Gas in a Strong Magnetic Field Halperin, Bertrand I. Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 26, Issue S3-3 https://doi.org/10.7567/JJAPS.26S3.1913	journal	January 1987
Magnetic-Field-Induced Insulating Behavior in Highly Oriented Pyrolitic Graphite Khveshchenko, D. V. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 87, Issue 20 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.206401	journal	October 2001
f-electron hybridised Fermi surface in magnetic field-induced metallic YbB12 Liu, H.; Hickey, A. J.; Hartstein, M. npj Quantum Materials, Vol. 7, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41535-021-00413-7	journal	January 2022
Comparison of silver and molybdenum microfocus X-ray sources for single-crystal structure determination Krause, Lennard; Herbst-Irmer, Regine; Sheldrick, George M. Journal of Applied Crystallography, Vol. 48, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1107/S1600576714022985	journal	January 2015
Magnetic Oscillations in Metals Shoenberg, D. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511897870	book	October 2011
Quantum limit transport and destruction of the Weyl nodes in TaAs Ramshaw, B. J.; Modic, K. A.; Shekhter, Arkady Nature Communications, Vol. 9, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04542-9	journal	June 2018
Excitons in topological Kondo insulators: Theory of thermodynamic and transport anomalies in ${SmB}_{6}$ Knolle, Johannes; Cooper, Nigel R. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 118, Issue 9 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.096604	journal	March 2017
Field-Induced Metallic State in YbB ₁₂ under High Magnetic Field Sugiyama, Kiyohiro; Iga, Fumitoshi; Kasaya, Mitsuo Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, Vol. 57, Issue 11 https://doi.org/10.1143/JPSJ.57.3946	journal	November 1988
Liquid-crystal phases of quantum Hall systems Fradkin, Eduardo; Kivelson, Steven A. Physical Review B, Vol. 59, Issue 12 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.59.8065	journal	March 1999
Emergent magnetic anisotropy in the cubic heavy-fermion metal CeIn3 Moll, Philip J. W.; Helm, Toni; Zhang, Shang-Shun npj Quantum Materials, Vol. 2, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41535-017-0052-5	journal	August 2017
Crystal structure refinement with SHELXL Sheldrick, George M. Acta Crystallographica Section C Structural Chemistry, Vol. 71, Issue 1, p. 3-8 https://doi.org/10.1107/S2053229614024218	journal	January 2015
Composite Fermions Jain, Jainendra K. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511607561	book	January 2007
Unconventional thermal metallic state of charge-neutral fermions in an insulator Sato, Y.; Xiang, Z.; Kasahara, Y. Nature Physics, Vol. 15, Issue 9 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-019-0552-2	journal	July 2019
High-magnetic-field electronic phase transition in graphite observed by magnetoresistance anomaly Iye, Y.; Tedrow, P. M.; Timp, G. Physical Review B, Vol. 25, Issue 8 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.25.5478	journal	April 1982
Mixed-valence insulators with neutral Fermi surfaces Chowdhury, Debanjan; Sodemann, Inti; Senthil, T. Nature Communications, Vol. 9, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04163-2	journal	May 2018
Odd-frequency pairing in the Kondo lattice Coleman, P.; Miranda, E.; Tsvelik, A. Physical Review B, Vol. 49, Issue 13 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.49.8955	journal	April 1994
Magnetic field-tuned Fermi liquid in a Kondo insulator Kushwaha, Satya K.; Chan, Mun K.; Park, Joonbum Nature Communications, Vol. 10, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13421-w	journal	December 2019
Heavy fermion semiconductors Riseborough, Peter S. Advances in Physics, Vol. 49, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1080/000187300243345	journal	May 2000
Quantum Oscillation in Narrow-Gap Topological Insulators Zhang, Long; Song, Xue-Yang; Wang, Fa Physical Review Letters, Vol. 116, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.046404	journal	January 2016
Heavy fermions in high magnetic fields Edwards, D. M.; Green, A. C. M. Zeitschrift für Physik B Condensed Matter, Vol. 103, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1007/s002570050367	journal	June 1996
Indirect and Direct Energy Gaps in Kondo Semiconductor YbB₁₂ Okamura, Hidekazu; Michizawa, Takahiro; Nanba, Takao Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, Vol. 74, Issue 7 https://doi.org/10.1143/JPSJ.74.1954	journal	July 2005
The rise of graphene Geim, A. K.; Novoselov, K. S. Nature Materials, Vol. 6, Issue 3, p. 183-191 https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat1849	journal	March 2007
Quantum oscillations of electrical resistivity in an insulator Xiang, Z.; Kasahara, Y.; Asaba, T. Science, Vol. 362, Issue 6410 https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aap9607	journal	August 2018
Excitonic Insulator in a Magnetic Field Fenton, E. W. Physical Review, Vol. 170, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.170.816	journal	June 1968
Single crystal growth and physical properties of Kondo insulator YbB12 Iga, F.; Shimizu, N.; Takabatake, T. Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, Vol. 177-181 https://doi.org/10.1016/S0304-8853(97)00493-9	journal	January 1998
Quantum oscillations in insulators with neutral Fermi surfaces Sodemann, Inti; Chowdhury, Debanjan; Senthil, T. Physical Review B, Vol. 97, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.97.045152	journal	January 2018
Measuring radio frequency properties of materials in pulsed magnetic fields with a tunnel diode oscillator Coffey, T.; Bayindir, Z.; DeCarolis, J. F. Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol. 71, Issue 12 https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1321301	journal	January 2000
Magnetization Process of the Kondo Insulator YbB ₁₂ in Ultrahigh Magnetic Fields Terashima, Taku T.; Ikeda, Akihiko; Matsuda, Yasuhiro H. Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, Vol. 86, Issue 5 https://doi.org/10.7566/JPSJ.86.054710	journal	May 2017
Unusual high-field metal in a Kondo insulator Xiang, Ziji; Chen, Lu; Chen, Kuan-Wen Nature Physics, Vol. 17, Issue 7 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-021-01216-0	journal	April 2021
Quantum oscillation of thermally activated conductivity in a monolayer WTe2 -like excitonic insulator He, Wen-Yu; Lee, Patrick A. Physical Review B, Vol. 104, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.104.L041110	journal	July 2021
Possible Anomalies at a Semimetal-Semiconductor Transistion Halperin, B. I.; Rice, T. M. Reviews of Modern Physics, Vol. 40, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1103/RevModPhys.40.755	journal	October 1968

Similar Records

Hall Anomaly, Quantum Oscillations and Possible Lifshitz Transitions in Kondo Insulator

{YbB}_{12}

: Evidence for Unconventional Charge Transport

Journal Article · Thu Jun 02 00:00:00 EDT 2022 · Physical Review. X · OSTI ID:2310402

Xiang, Ziji; Chen, Kuan-Wen; Chen, Lu; +10 more

Unconventional thermal metallic state of charge-neutral fermions in an insulator

Journal Article · Mon Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 2019 · Nature Physics · OSTI ID:2310402

Sato, Y.; Xiang, Z.; Kasahara, Y.; +13 more

Unconventional Hall response in the quantum limit of HfTe₅

Journal Article · Mon Nov 23 00:00:00 EST 2020 · Nature Communications · OSTI ID:2310402

Galeski, S.; Zhao, X.; Wawrzyńczak, R.; +14 more

Title: The reverse quantum limit and its implications for unconventional quantum oscillations in YbB12

Citation Formats

References (40)

Similar Records

Related Subjects