Nature Communications (Oct 2016)

Gate-tunable negative longitudinal magnetoresistance in the predicted type-II Weyl semimetal WTe2

  • Yaojia Wang,
  • Erfu Liu,
  • Huimei Liu,
  • Yiming Pan,
  • Longqiang Zhang,
  • Junwen Zeng,
  • Yajun Fu,
  • Miao Wang,
  • Kang Xu,
  • Zhong Huang,
  • Zhenlin Wang,
  • Hai-Zhou Lu,
  • Dingyu Xing,
  • Baigeng Wang,
  • Xiangang Wan,
  • Feng Miao

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13142
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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Controllable electric transport of topological particles in solid state systems hold the key towards novel electronic applications. Here, Wang et al. demonstrate gate-tunable negative longitudinal magnetoresistance in WTe2, featuring controllable transport of Type-II Weyl fermions.