Origin of the butterfly magnetoresistance in a Dirac nodal-line system

Chiu, Y.-C.; Chen, K.-W.; Schönemann, R.; Quito, V. L.; Sur, S.; Zhou, Q.; Graf, D.; Kampert, E.; Förster, T.; Yang, K.; McCandless, G. T.; Chan, Julia Y.; Baumbach, R. E.; Johannes, M. D.; Balicas, L.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.100.125112

Title: Origin of the butterfly magnetoresistance in a Dirac nodal-line system

Journal Article · 04 September 2019 · Physical Review B

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.100.125112 · OSTI ID:1594243

Chiu, Y.-C. ^[1]; Chen, K.-W. ^[1]; Schönemann, R. ^[1]; Quito, V. L. ^[2]; Sur, S. ^[3]; Zhou, Q. ^[1]; Graf, D. ^[1]; Kampert, E. ^[4]; Förster, T. ^[4]; Yang, K. ^[1]; McCandless, G. T. ^[5]; Chan, Julia Y. ^[5]; Baumbach, R. E. ^[1]; Johannes, M. D. ^[6];

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Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL (United States)
Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL (United States); Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA (United States)
Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL (United States); Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States)
Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (Germany)
Univ. of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX (United States)
Naval Research Lab. (NRL), Washington, DC (United States)

Here, we report a study on the magnetotransport properties and on the Fermi surfaces (FS) of ZrSi(Se,Te) semimetals. Density-functional theory (DFT) calculations, in absence of spin orbit coupling (SOC), reveal that both the Se and the Te compounds display Dirac nodal lines (DNL) close to the Fermi level εF at symmorphic and nonsymmorphic positions, respectively. We find that the geometry of their FSs agrees well with DFT predictions. ZrSiSe displays low residual resistivities, pronounced magnetoresistivity, high carrier mobilities, and a butterflylike angle-dependent magnetoresistivity (AMR), although its DNL is not protected against gap opening. As in Cd₃As₂, its transport lifetime is found to be 10² to 10³ times larger than its quantum one. ZrSiTe, which possesses a protected DNL, displays conventional transport properties. Our evaluation indicates that both compounds most likely are topologically trivial. Nearly angle-independent effective masses with strong angle-dependent quantum lifetimes lead to the butterfly AMR in ZrSiSe.

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Research Organization:: Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Science Foundation (NSF); State of Florida

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OSTI ID:: 1594243

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1560317

Journal Information:: Physical Review B, Vol. 100, Issue 12; ISSN 2469-9950

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