Origin of the quasi-quantized Hall effect in ZrTe


Journal

Nature communications
ISSN: 2041-1723
Titre abrégé: Nat Commun
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101528555

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
27 May 2021
Historique:
received: 25 01 2021
accepted: 27 04 2021
entrez: 28 5 2021
pubmed: 29 5 2021
medline: 29 5 2021
Statut: epublish

Résumé

The quantum Hall effect (QHE) is traditionally considered to be a purely two-dimensional (2D) phenomenon. Recently, however, a three-dimensional (3D) version of the QHE was reported in the Dirac semimetal ZrTe

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pubmed: 34045452
doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-23435-y
pii: 10.1038/s41467-021-23435-y
pmc: PMC8159947
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Journal Article

Langues

eng

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IM

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3197

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Auteurs

S Galeski (S)

Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden, Germany. stanislaw.galeski@cpfs.mpg.de.

T Ehmcke (T)

Institute for Theoretical Physics and Würzburg-Dresden Cluster of Excellence ct.qmat, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany.

R Wawrzyńczak (R)

Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden, Germany.

P M Lozano (PM)

Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, USA.

K Cho (K)

Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Halle, Saale, Germany.

A Sharma (A)

Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Halle, Saale, Germany.

S Das (S)

Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Halle, Saale, Germany.

F Küster (F)

Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Halle, Saale, Germany.

P Sessi (P)

Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Halle, Saale, Germany.

M Brando (M)

Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden, Germany.

R Küchler (R)

Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden, Germany.

A Markou (A)

Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden, Germany.

M König (M)

Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden, Germany.

P Swekis (P)

Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden, Germany.

C Felser (C)

Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden, Germany.

Y Sassa (Y)

Department of Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.

Q Li (Q)

Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, USA.

G Gu (G)

Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, USA.

M V Zimmermann (MV)

Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg, Germany.

O Ivashko (O)

Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg, Germany.

D I Gorbunov (DI)

Hochfeld-Magnetlabor Dresden (HLD-EMFL) and Würzburg-Dresden Cluster of Excellence ct.qmat,, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Dresden, Germany.

S Zherlitsyn (S)

Hochfeld-Magnetlabor Dresden (HLD-EMFL) and Würzburg-Dresden Cluster of Excellence ct.qmat,, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Dresden, Germany.

T Förster (T)

Hochfeld-Magnetlabor Dresden (HLD-EMFL) and Würzburg-Dresden Cluster of Excellence ct.qmat,, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Dresden, Germany.

S S P Parkin (SSP)

Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Halle, Saale, Germany.

J Wosnitza (J)

Hochfeld-Magnetlabor Dresden (HLD-EMFL) and Würzburg-Dresden Cluster of Excellence ct.qmat,, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Dresden, Germany.
Institut für Festkörper- und Materialphysik, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany.

T Meng (T)

Institute for Theoretical Physics and Würzburg-Dresden Cluster of Excellence ct.qmat, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany.

J Gooth (J)

Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden, Germany. johannes.gooth@cpfs.mpg.de.
Institut für Festkörper- und Materialphysik, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany. johannes.gooth@cpfs.mpg.de.

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