Fermi surface of the Weyl type-II metallic candidate WP2

Schönemann, R.; Aryal, N.; Zhou, Q.; Chiu, Y. -C.; Chen, K. -W.; Martin, T. J.; McCandless, G. T.; Chan, J. Y.; Manousakis, E.; Balicas, L.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.96.121108

Title: Fermi surface of the Weyl type-II metallic candidate ${WP}_{2}$

Journal Article · Mon Sep 11 00:00:00 EDT 2017 · Physical Review B

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.96.121108· OSTI ID:1399696

Schönemann, R. ^[1]; Aryal, N. ^[2]; Zhou, Q. ^[1]; Chiu, Y. -C. ^[1]; Chen, K. -W. ^[1]; Martin, T. J. ^[3]; McCandless, G. T. ^[4]; Chan, J. Y. ^[4]; Manousakis, E. ^[2]; Balicas, L. ^[1]

Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL (United States). National High Magnetic Field Lab. (MagLab)
Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL (United States). National High Magnetic Field Lab. (MagLab); Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL (United States). Dept. of Physics
Univ. of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX (United States). Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Univ. of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX (United States). Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Weyl type-II fermions are massless quasiparticles that obey the Weyl equation and which are predicted to occur at the boundary between electron- and hole-pockets in certain semi-metals, i.e. the (W,Mo)(Te,P)$$_2$$ compounds. Here, we present a study of the Fermi-surface of WP$$_2$$ \emph{via} the Shubnikov-de Haas (SdH) effect. Compared to other semi-metals WP$$_2$$ exhibits a very low residual resistivity, i.e. $$\rho_0 \simeq 10$$ n$$\Omega$$cm, which leads to perhaps the largest non-saturating magneto-resistivity $$(\rho(H))$$ reported for any compound. For the samples displaying the smallest $$\rho_0$$, $$\rho(H)$$ is observed to increase by a factor of $$2.5 \times 10^{7}$$ $$\%$$ under $$\mu_{0}H = 35$$ T at $T = 0.35$ K. The angular dependence of the SdH frequencies is found to be in excellent agreement with the first-principle calculations when the electron- and hole-bands are shifted by 30 meV with respect to the Fermi level. This small discrepancy could have implications for the predicted topological character of this compound.

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Research Organization:: Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL (United States). National High Magnetic Field Lab. (MagLab)

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

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0002613; DMR-1157490

OSTI ID:: 1399696

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1389122

Journal Information:: Physical Review B, Vol. 96, Issue 12; Related Information: https://journals.aps.org/prb/supplemental/10.1103/PhysRevB.96.121108; ISSN 2469-9950

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