Nature Communications (Aug 2016)

Zeeman splitting and dynamical mass generation in Dirac semimetal ZrTe5

  • Yanwen Liu,
  • Xiang Yuan,
  • Cheng Zhang,
  • Zhao Jin,
  • Awadhesh Narayan,
  • Chen Luo,
  • Zhigang Chen,
  • Lei Yang,
  • Jin Zou,
  • Xing Wu,
  • Stefano Sanvito,
  • Zhengcai Xia,
  • Liang Li,
  • Zhong Wang,
  • Faxian Xiu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12516
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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It has been predicted that the presence of strong electronic correlations may generate new phases in materials with topologically non-trivial band structure. Here, the authors demonstrate the generation of Dirac mass in the correlated Dirac semimetal candidate ZrTe5under high magnetic fields.