Nature Communications (Mar 2016)

Interplanar coupling-dependent magnetoresistivity in high-purity layered metals

  • N. Kikugawa,
  • P. Goswami,
  • A. Kiswandhi,
  • E. S. Choi,
  • D. Graf,
  • R. E. Baumbach,
  • J. S. Brooks,
  • K. Sugii,
  • Y. Iida,
  • M. Nishio,
  • S. Uji,
  • T. Terashima,
  • P.M.C. Rourke,
  • N. E. Hussey,
  • H. Takatsu,
  • S. Yonezawa,
  • Y. Maeno,
  • L. Balicas

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10903
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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In Weyl semimetals, unusual electronic transport phenomena are predicted to occur, such as an axial anomaly which violates the conservation of chiral fermions. Here, the authors evidence such behaviour via the occurrence of negative magnetoresistance in layered high-purity non-magnetic metals.