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Quadratic to linear magnetoresistance tuning in TmB4
Ames Laboratory Accepted Manuscripts
  • Sreemanta Mitra, Nanyang Technological University
  • Jeremy Goh Swee Kang, Nanyang Technological University
  • John Shin, University of California, Santa Cruz
  • Jin Quan Ng, Nanyang Technological University
  • Sai Swaroop Sunku, Nanyang Technological University
  • Tai Kong, Iowa State University
  • Paul C. Canfield, Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory
  • B. Sriram Shastry, University of California, Santa Cruz
  • Pinaki Sengupta, Nanyang Technological University
  • Christos Panagopoulos, Nanyang Technological University
Publication Date
1-9-2019
Department
Ames Laboratory; Physics and Astronomy
OSTI ID+
1492303
Report Number
IS-J 9853
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevB.99.045119
Journal Title
Physical Review B
Abstract

The change of a material's electrical resistance (R) in response to an external magnetic field (B) provides subtle information for the characterization of its electronic properties and has found applications in sensor and storage related technologies. In good metals, Boltzmann's theory predicts a quadratic growth in magnetoresistance (MR) at low B and saturation at high fields. On the other hand, a number of nonmagnetic materials with weak electronic correlation and low carrier concentration for metallicity, such as inhomogeneous conductors, semimetals, narrow gap semiconductors and topological insulators, and two dimensional electron gas, show positive, nonsaturating linear magnetoresistance (LMR). However, observation of LMR in single crystals of a good metal is rare. Here we present low-temperature, angle-dependent magnetotransport in single crystals of the antiferromagnetic metal, TmB4. We observe large, positive, and anisotropic MR(B), which can be tuned from quadratic to linear by changing the direction of the applied field. In view of the fact that isotropic, single crystalline metals with large Fermi surface (FS) are not expected to exhibit LMR, we attribute our observations to the anisotropic FS topology of TmB4. Furthermore, the linear MR is found to be temperature independent, suggestive of quantum mechanical origin.

DOE Contract Number(s)
MOE2014-T2-2-112; NRFI2015-04; FG02-06ER46319; AC02-07CH11358
Language
en
Publisher
Iowa State University Digital Repository, Ames IA (United States)
Citation Information
Sreemanta Mitra, Jeremy Goh Swee Kang, John Shin, Jin Quan Ng, et al.. "Quadratic to linear magnetoresistance tuning in TmB4" Vol. 99 Iss. 4 (2019) p. 045119
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/paul_canfield/167/