Evidence from transport measurements for YRh6Ge4 being a triply degenerate nodal semimetal
Abstract
We have investigated magnetotransport properties of YRh6Ge4, which was recently predicted to be a triply degenerate nodal semimetal. We find it exhibits remarkable signatures of a chiral anomaly, manifested by large negative longitudinal magnetoresistance, the quadratic field dependence of magnetoconductance and the planar Hall effect. Furthermore, we have also observed Shubnikov-de Haas (SdH) quantum oscillations in the magnetoresistivity measurements on this material. The analyses of the SdH data reveal two pointlike Fermi surfaces and these pockets are found to host nearly massless fermions. The small size of these Fermi pockets is in a good agreement with the theoretical prediction that the triply degenerate point in YRh6Ge4 is much closer to the Fermi level than previously demonstrated triply degenerate nodal semimetals such as MoP and WC. These results suggest YRh6Ge4 may serve as a model system to probe exotic properties of three-component fermions and understand their underlying physics.
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- Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA (United States)
- Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, LA (United States)
- Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL (United States). National High Magnetic Field Lab. (MagLab)
- Univ. of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR (United States)
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- Univ. of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR (United States)
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- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Science Foundation (NSF)
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- 1593552
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- SC0019467; DMR-1917579; DMR-1832031; DMR-1157490
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- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review B
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- Journal Volume: 101; Journal Issue: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9950
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- American Physical Society (APS)
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- United States
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- English
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- 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; magnetoresistance; quantum transport; topological phases of matter; Shubnikov-de Haas effect
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Zhu, Yanglin, Gui, Xin, Wang, Yu, Graf, David, Xie, Weiwei, Hu, Jin, and Mao, Zhiqiang. Evidence from transport measurements for YRh6Ge4 being a triply degenerate nodal semimetal. United States: N. p., 2020.
Web. doi:10.1103/physrevb.101.035133.
Zhu, Yanglin, Gui, Xin, Wang, Yu, Graf, David, Xie, Weiwei, Hu, Jin, & Mao, Zhiqiang. Evidence from transport measurements for YRh6Ge4 being a triply degenerate nodal semimetal. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.101.035133
Zhu, Yanglin, Gui, Xin, Wang, Yu, Graf, David, Xie, Weiwei, Hu, Jin, and Mao, Zhiqiang. Fri .
"Evidence from transport measurements for YRh6Ge4 being a triply degenerate nodal semimetal". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.101.035133. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1593552.
@article{osti_1593552,
title = {Evidence from transport measurements for YRh6Ge4 being a triply degenerate nodal semimetal},
author = {Zhu, Yanglin and Gui, Xin and Wang, Yu and Graf, David and Xie, Weiwei and Hu, Jin and Mao, Zhiqiang},
abstractNote = {We have investigated magnetotransport properties of YRh6Ge4, which was recently predicted to be a triply degenerate nodal semimetal. We find it exhibits remarkable signatures of a chiral anomaly, manifested by large negative longitudinal magnetoresistance, the quadratic field dependence of magnetoconductance and the planar Hall effect. Furthermore, we have also observed Shubnikov-de Haas (SdH) quantum oscillations in the magnetoresistivity measurements on this material. The analyses of the SdH data reveal two pointlike Fermi surfaces and these pockets are found to host nearly massless fermions. The small size of these Fermi pockets is in a good agreement with the theoretical prediction that the triply degenerate point in YRh6Ge4 is much closer to the Fermi level than previously demonstrated triply degenerate nodal semimetals such as MoP and WC. These results suggest YRh6Ge4 may serve as a model system to probe exotic properties of three-component fermions and understand their underlying physics.},
doi = {10.1103/physrevb.101.035133},
journal = {Physical Review B},
number = 3,
volume = 101,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Jan 17 00:00:00 EST 2020},
month = {Fri Jan 17 00:00:00 EST 2020}
}
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