Nature Communications (May 2016)

Negative magnetoresistance without well-defined chirality in the Weyl semimetal TaP

  • Frank Arnold,
  • Chandra Shekhar,
  • Shu-Chun Wu,
  • Yan Sun,
  • Ricardo Donizeth dos Reis,
  • Nitesh Kumar,
  • Marcel Naumann,
  • Mukkattu O. Ajeesh,
  • Marcus Schmidt,
  • Adolfo G. Grushin,
  • Jens H. Bardarson,
  • Michael Baenitz,
  • Dmitry Sokolov,
  • Horst Borrmann,
  • Michael Nicklas,
  • Claudia Felser,
  • Elena Hassinger,
  • Binghai Yan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11615
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Magnetoresistance of topological semimetal shows unusual electron transport behaviour. Here, Arnold et al. demonstrate detailed Fermi surface topology of Weyl semimetal TaP and show that negative longitudinal magnetoresistance shows up without well-defined Weyl fermions.