Nature Communications (Jan 2019)

Negative longitudinal magnetoresistance in gallium arsenide quantum wells

  • Jing Xu,
  • Meng K. Ma,
  • Maksim Sultanov,
  • Zhi-Li Xiao,
  • Yong-Lei Wang,
  • Dafei Jin,
  • Yang-Yang Lyu,
  • Wei Zhang,
  • Loren N. Pfeiffer,
  • Ken W. West,
  • Kirk W. Baldwin,
  • Mansour Shayegan,
  • Wai-Kwong Kwok

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-08199-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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The attribution of negative longitudinal magnetoresistance (NLMR) in Weyl metals to a chiral anomaly is already challenged. Here, NLMR resembling that of Weyl metals is demonstrated in a non-Weyl-metal GaAs quantum well originating from different types of disorder.