Electron transport in nodal-line semimetals
Abstract
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 decaying as over a wide interval of distances . 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 in the limit of vanishing chemical potential , a linearly increasing dependence of the conductivity on temperature, , and a large weak-localization correction with a strongly anisotropic dependence on magnetic field.
- Authors:
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- 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)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) (United States). Center for Excitonics (CE)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1388198
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1399069
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0001088
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review B
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 96; Journal Issue: 16; Related Information: CE partners with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (lead); Brookhaven National Laboratory; Harvard University; Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9950
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE
Citation Formats
Syzranov, S. V., and Skinner, B. Electron transport in nodal-line semimetals. United States: N. p., 2017.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.96.161105.
Syzranov, S. V., & Skinner, B. Electron transport in nodal-line semimetals. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.96.161105
Syzranov, S. V., and Skinner, B. Wed .
"Electron transport in nodal-line semimetals". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.96.161105. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1388198.
@article{osti_1388198,
title = {Electron transport in nodal-line semimetals},
author = {Syzranov, S. V. and Skinner, B.},
abstractNote = {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∝1/r2 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 ∝1/|μ| in the limit of vanishing chemical potential μ, a linearly increasing dependence of the conductivity on temperature, σ∝T, and a large weak-localization correction with a strongly anisotropic dependence on magnetic field.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevB.96.161105},
journal = {Physical Review B},
number = 16,
volume = 96,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Oct 11 00:00:00 EDT 2017},
month = {Wed Oct 11 00:00:00 EDT 2017}
}
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