Signatures of a magnetic-field-induced Lifshitz transition in the ultra-quantum limit of the topological semimetal ZrTe5
Abstract
The quantum limit (QL) of an electron liquid, realised at strong magnetic fields, has long been proposed to host a wealth of strongly correlated states of matter. Electronic states in the QL are, for example, quasi-one dimensional (1D), which implies perfectly nested Fermi surfaces prone to instabilities. Whereas the QL typically requires unreachably strong magnetic fields, the topological semimetal ZrTe5 has been shown to reach the QL at fields of only a few Tesla. Here, we characterize the QL of ZrTe5 at fields up to 64 T by a combination of electrical-transport and ultrasound measurements. We find that the Zeeman effect in ZrTe5 enables an efficient tuning of the 1D Landau band structure with magnetic field. This results in a Lifshitz transition to a 1D Weyl regime in which perfect charge neutrality can be achieved. Since no instability-driven phase transitions destabilise the 1D electron liquid for the investigated field strengths and temperatures, our analysis establishes ZrTe5 as a thoroughly understood platform for potentially inducing more exotic interaction-driven phases at lower temperatures.
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- Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden (Germany); Universität Bonn (Germany)
- University of Basel (Switzerland)
- Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden (Germany)
- Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (Germany)
- Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (Germany); Technische Universität Dresden (Germany)
- Technische Universität Dresden (Germany)
- 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 (MSE)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1985785
- Report Number(s):
- BNL-224517-2023-JAAM
Journal ID: ISSN 2041-1723; TRN: US2402692
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0012704
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Nature Communications
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 13; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2041-1723
- Publisher:
- Nature Publishing Group
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY; Phase transitions and critical phenomena; Topological insulators
Citation Formats
Galeski, Stanislaw, Legg, Henry F., Wawrzyńczak, R., Förster, T., Zherlitsyn, S., Gorbunov, D., Uhlarz, M., Lozano, P. M., Li, Q., Gu, Genda D., Felser, C., Wosnitza, J., Meng, T., and Gooth, Johannes. Signatures of a magnetic-field-induced Lifshitz transition in the ultra-quantum limit of the topological semimetal ZrTe5. United States: N. p., 2022.
Web. doi:10.1038/s41467-022-35106-7.
Galeski, Stanislaw, Legg, Henry F., Wawrzyńczak, R., Förster, T., Zherlitsyn, S., Gorbunov, D., Uhlarz, M., Lozano, P. M., Li, Q., Gu, Genda D., Felser, C., Wosnitza, J., Meng, T., & Gooth, Johannes. Signatures of a magnetic-field-induced Lifshitz transition in the ultra-quantum limit of the topological semimetal ZrTe5. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35106-7
Galeski, Stanislaw, Legg, Henry F., Wawrzyńczak, R., Förster, T., Zherlitsyn, S., Gorbunov, D., Uhlarz, M., Lozano, P. M., Li, Q., Gu, Genda D., Felser, C., Wosnitza, J., Meng, T., and Gooth, Johannes. Thu .
"Signatures of a magnetic-field-induced Lifshitz transition in the ultra-quantum limit of the topological semimetal ZrTe5". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35106-7. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1985785.
@article{osti_1985785,
title = {Signatures of a magnetic-field-induced Lifshitz transition in the ultra-quantum limit of the topological semimetal ZrTe5},
author = {Galeski, Stanislaw and Legg, Henry F. and Wawrzyńczak, R. and Förster, T. and Zherlitsyn, S. and Gorbunov, D. and Uhlarz, M. and Lozano, P. M. and Li, Q. and Gu, Genda D. and Felser, C. and Wosnitza, J. and Meng, T. and Gooth, Johannes},
abstractNote = {The quantum limit (QL) of an electron liquid, realised at strong magnetic fields, has long been proposed to host a wealth of strongly correlated states of matter. Electronic states in the QL are, for example, quasi-one dimensional (1D), which implies perfectly nested Fermi surfaces prone to instabilities. Whereas the QL typically requires unreachably strong magnetic fields, the topological semimetal ZrTe5 has been shown to reach the QL at fields of only a few Tesla. Here, we characterize the QL of ZrTe5 at fields up to 64 T by a combination of electrical-transport and ultrasound measurements. We find that the Zeeman effect in ZrTe5 enables an efficient tuning of the 1D Landau band structure with magnetic field. This results in a Lifshitz transition to a 1D Weyl regime in which perfect charge neutrality can be achieved. Since no instability-driven phase transitions destabilise the 1D electron liquid for the investigated field strengths and temperatures, our analysis establishes ZrTe5 as a thoroughly understood platform for potentially inducing more exotic interaction-driven phases at lower temperatures.},
doi = {10.1038/s41467-022-35106-7},
journal = {Nature Communications},
number = 1,
volume = 13,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 2022},
month = {Thu Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 2022}
}
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