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Unconventional magneto-resistance, and electronic transition in Mn$_3$Ge Weyl semimetal
arXiv (Cornell University)
26 Oct 2022
Abstract
Physical Review B (2022) Weyl semimetals are well known for their anomalous transport effects caused
by a large fictitious magnetic field generated by the non-zero Berry curvature.
We performed the analysis of the electrical transport measurements of the
magnetic Weyl semimetal Mn$_{3}$Ge in the a-b and a-c plane. We have observed
negative longitudinal magneto-resistance (LMR) at a low magnetic field ($B<1.5$
T) along all the axes. The high field LMR shows different behavior along x and
z axes. A similar trend has been observed in the case of planar Hall effect
(PHE) measurements as well. The nature of high field LMR along the x axis
changes near 200 K. Dominant carrier concentration type, and metallic to
semimetallic transition also occur near 200 K. These observations suggest two
main conclusions: (i) The high field LMR in Mn$_3$Ge is driven by the metallic
- semimetallic nature of the compound. (ii) Mn$_3$Ge compound goes through an
electronic band topological transition near 200 K. Single crystal neutron
diffraction does not show any change in the magnetic structure below 300 K.
However, the in-plane lattice parameter (a) shows a maximum near 230 K.
Therefore, it is possible that the change in electronic band structure near 200
K is driven by the a lattice parameter of the compound.
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- Title
- Unconventional magneto-resistance, and electronic transition in Mn$_3$Ge Weyl semimetal
- Creators
- Venus RaiSubhadip JanaMartin MevenRajesh DuttaJörg PerßonShibabrata Nandi
- Publication Details
- arXiv (Cornell University)
- Resource Type
- Preprint
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Other Identifier
- 991022004635904721