Nature Communications (Jun 2018)

Quantum limit transport and destruction of the Weyl nodes in TaAs

  • B. J. Ramshaw,
  • K. A. Modic,
  • Arkady Shekhter,
  • Yi Zhang,
  • Eun-Ah Kim,
  • Philip J. W. Moll,
  • Maja D. Bachmann,
  • M. K. Chan,
  • J. B. Betts,
  • F. Balakirev,
  • A. Migliori,
  • N. J. Ghimire,
  • E. D. Bauer,
  • F. Ronning,
  • R. D. McDonald

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04542-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Weyl semimetals should exhibit unusual electronic behaviour but conditions where these effects dominate are difficult to achieve. Ramshaw et al. use high magnetic fields to drive TaAs into the quantum limit, finding evidence for the predicted chiral anomaly and an unanticipated increase in resistivity at the highest fields.