Quantized Hall effect and a new field-induced phase transition in the organic superconductor (TMTSF) sub 2 PF sub 6

Journal Article · Sun Oct 29 23:00:00 EST 1989 · Physical Review Letters; (USA)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.63.1984· OSTI ID:5300244

Cooper, J R; Kang, W; Auban, P; Montambaux, G; Jerome, D ^[1]; Bechgaard, K ^[2]

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1. Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, Universite Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay, (France)
2. Department of General and Organic Chemistry, H.C. Oersted Institute, Copenhagen, DK-2100, (Denmark)

We report a Hall effect and magnetoresistance study of single crystals of the organic superconductor tetramethyl-tetraselenafulvalinium hexafluorophosphate, (TMTSF){sub 2}PF{sub 6}, under hydrostatic pressure at temperatures down to 0.5 K in magnetic fields up to 25 T. There is clear evidence for a quantized Hall effect, with plateaus labeled by the integers {ital n}=5 to 1, up to 17 T. A new field-induced phase transition to a very resistive state occurs at 18 T. We believe that this is the {ital n}=0'' spin-density-wave state predicted by the quantized nesting theory.

• OSTI ID: 5300244
• Journal Information: Physical Review Letters; (USA), Journal Name: Physical Review Letters; (USA) Vol. 63:18; ISSN PRLTA; ISSN 0031-9007
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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36 MATERIALS SCIENCE
360603* -- Materials-- Properties
CHAINS
CRYSTALS
ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY
ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES
FLUORIDES
FLUORINE COMPOUNDS
GALVANOMAGNETIC EFFECT
HALIDES
HALL EFFECT
HALOGEN COMPOUNDS
HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS
MAGNETIC FIELDS
MAGNETORESISTANCE
MONOCRYSTALS
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
ORGANIC SUPERCONDUCTORS
PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS
PHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS
PHOSPHORUS FLUORIDES
PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
PLASMA WAVES
PRESSURE DEPENDENCE
QUANTIZATION
SELENIUM COMPOUNDS
SUPERCONDUCTIVITY
SUPERCONDUCTORS
TMTSF
ULTRALOW TEMPERATURE
VERY HIGH PRESSURE