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Title: Quantum limit transport and destruction of the Weyl nodes in TaAs

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ORCiD logo [1];  [2];  [3];  [4]; ORCiD logo [4]; ORCiD logo [2];  [2];  [5];  [5];  [5];  [5];  [6]; ORCiD logo [5];  [5]; ORCiD logo [5]
  1. Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY (United States); Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
  2. Max-Planck-Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden (Germany)
  3. National High Magnetic Field Lab., Tallahassee, FL (United States)
  4. Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY (United States)
  5. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
  6. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
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Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
European Research Council (ERC); National Science Foundation (NSF); Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society (Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft); Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC); Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRL); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program
OSTI Identifier:
1463697
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1467205
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-17-23674
Journal ID: ISSN 2041-1723; 145520
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-06CH11357; AC52-06NA25396
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Nature Communications
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 9; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher:
Nature Publishing Group
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
74 ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS; High Magnetic Field Science; Weyl semimetal Quantum limit magnetotransport ultrasound

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Ramshaw, B. J., Modic, K. A., Shekhter, Arkady, Zhang, Yi, Kim, Eun -Ah, Moll, Philip J. W., Bachmann, Maja D., Chan, M. K., Betts, J. B., Balakirev, F., Migliori, A., Ghimire, N. J., Bauer, E. D., Ronning, F., and McDonald, R. D. Quantum limit transport and destruction of the Weyl nodes in TaAs. United States: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.1038/s41467-018-04542-9.
Ramshaw, B. J., Modic, K. A., Shekhter, Arkady, Zhang, Yi, Kim, Eun -Ah, Moll, Philip J. W., Bachmann, Maja D., Chan, M. K., Betts, J. B., Balakirev, F., Migliori, A., Ghimire, N. J., Bauer, E. D., Ronning, F., & McDonald, R. D. Quantum limit transport and destruction of the Weyl nodes in TaAs. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04542-9
Ramshaw, B. J., Modic, K. A., Shekhter, Arkady, Zhang, Yi, Kim, Eun -Ah, Moll, Philip J. W., Bachmann, Maja D., Chan, M. K., Betts, J. B., Balakirev, F., Migliori, A., Ghimire, N. J., Bauer, E. D., Ronning, F., and McDonald, R. D. Thu . "Quantum limit transport and destruction of the Weyl nodes in TaAs". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04542-9. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1463697.
@article{osti_1463697,
title = {Quantum limit transport and destruction of the Weyl nodes in TaAs},
author = {Ramshaw, B. J. and Modic, K. A. and Shekhter, Arkady and Zhang, Yi and Kim, Eun -Ah and Moll, Philip J. W. and Bachmann, Maja D. and Chan, M. K. and Betts, J. B. and Balakirev, F. and Migliori, A. and Ghimire, N. J. and Bauer, E. D. and Ronning, F. and McDonald, R. D.},
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doi = {10.1038/s41467-018-04542-9},
journal = {Nature Communications},
number = 1,
volume = 9,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Jun 07 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Thu Jun 07 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
}

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Fig. 1 Fig. 1: Weyl fermions and quantum limit transport in TaAs. a the Weyl semimetal TaAs contains three types of charge carriers: trivial holes (red), and two sets of electron-like Weyl fermions, designated W1 and W2, one of which is shown here in blue. The holes are of a single non-chiralmore » carrier type, and contribute a non-Weyl background signature to experiments. The Weyl electrons are separated into distinct right and left-handed chiralities: arrows indicate the winding of the pseudospin around each Fermi surface. b Resistivity of TaAs for J||B||c from 0.7 to 20 K. Quantum oscillations from the Weyl pockets are visible up to 7.5 T, followed by a decrease and then saturation of ρzz up to 50 T. Above 50 T there is a two order-of-magnitude increase in ρzz at low temperature, signifying the opening of a gap. The inset shows single-crystal TaAs microstructured using focused-ion-beam (FIB) lithography for both the ρzz and ρxx measurements« less

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