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Title: Anomalous Hall effect at the Lifshitz transition in ZrTe5

Abstract

Zirconium pentatelluride ZrTe5 is a topological semimetal. The presence of a temperature-induced Lifshitz transition, in which the Fermi level goes from the conduction band to the valence band with increasing temperature, provides unique opportunities to study the interplay between Fermi-surface topology, dynamics of Dirac fermions, and Berry curvature in one system. Here we present a combined experimental and theoretical study and show that a low-energy model can be used to understand the complicated Hall response and large anomalous Hall effect observed in ZrTe5 over a wide range of temperature and magnetic field. We found that the anomalous Hall contribution dominates the Hall response in a narrow temperature window around the Lifshitz transition, away from which the orbital contribution dominates. Moreover, our results indicate that a topological phase transition coexists with the Lifshitz transition. To conclude, our model provides a unifying framework to understand the Hall effect in semimetals with large Zeeman splitting and nontrivial topology.

Authors:
ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [2];  [3];  [3];  [3]; ORCiD logo [3];  [3]; ORCiD logo [1]
  1. Stony Brook Univ., NY (United States); Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
  2. Stony Brook Univ., NY (United States)
  3. Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division; National Science Foundation (NSF)
OSTI Identifier:
1897502
Report Number(s):
BNL-223676-2022-JAAM
Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9950; TRN: US2310802
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0012704; DMR-1606591
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Physical Review. B
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 106; Journal Issue: 8; Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9950
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY

Citation Formats

Lozano, Pedro M., Cardoso, Gabriel, Aryal, Niraj, Nevola, D., Gu, Genda, Tsvelik, Alexei, Yin, Weiguo, and Li, Qiang. Anomalous Hall effect at the Lifshitz transition in ZrTe5. United States: N. p., 2022. Web. doi:10.1103/physrevb.106.l081124.
Lozano, Pedro M., Cardoso, Gabriel, Aryal, Niraj, Nevola, D., Gu, Genda, Tsvelik, Alexei, Yin, Weiguo, & Li, Qiang. Anomalous Hall effect at the Lifshitz transition in ZrTe5. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.106.l081124
Lozano, Pedro M., Cardoso, Gabriel, Aryal, Niraj, Nevola, D., Gu, Genda, Tsvelik, Alexei, Yin, Weiguo, and Li, Qiang. Mon . "Anomalous Hall effect at the Lifshitz transition in ZrTe5". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.106.l081124. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1897502.
@article{osti_1897502,
title = {Anomalous Hall effect at the Lifshitz transition in ZrTe5},
author = {Lozano, Pedro M. and Cardoso, Gabriel and Aryal, Niraj and Nevola, D. and Gu, Genda and Tsvelik, Alexei and Yin, Weiguo and Li, Qiang},
abstractNote = {Zirconium pentatelluride ZrTe5 is a topological semimetal. The presence of a temperature-induced Lifshitz transition, in which the Fermi level goes from the conduction band to the valence band with increasing temperature, provides unique opportunities to study the interplay between Fermi-surface topology, dynamics of Dirac fermions, and Berry curvature in one system. Here we present a combined experimental and theoretical study and show that a low-energy model can be used to understand the complicated Hall response and large anomalous Hall effect observed in ZrTe5 over a wide range of temperature and magnetic field. We found that the anomalous Hall contribution dominates the Hall response in a narrow temperature window around the Lifshitz transition, away from which the orbital contribution dominates. Moreover, our results indicate that a topological phase transition coexists with the Lifshitz transition. To conclude, our model provides a unifying framework to understand the Hall effect in semimetals with large Zeeman splitting and nontrivial topology.},
doi = {10.1103/physrevb.106.l081124},
journal = {Physical Review. B},
number = 8,
volume = 106,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Aug 29 00:00:00 EDT 2022},
month = {Mon Aug 29 00:00:00 EDT 2022}
}

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