Anomalous Transport Properties of Re$_3$Ge$_7$
| Autor: | Rabus, Anja, Mun, Eundeok |
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| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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| Zdroj: | Phys. Rev. Materials 3, 013404 (2019) |
| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.3.013404 |
| Popis: | Single crystals of intermetallic Re$_3$Ge$_7$ were grown and characterized by measuring magnetization, electrical resistivity, Hall coefficient, and specific heat. Magnetization measurements show the material is weakly diamagnetic. A phase transition is indicated by a kink in magnetic susceptibility at $T_{c} = 58.5$K and is confirmed by a $\lambda$-like anomaly in specific heat. In zero-field, the temperature dependence of electrical resistivity $\rho(T)$ follows a typical metallic behavior above $T_c$ and sharply increases below $T_c$, showing a metal-to-insulator-like transition. When a magnetic field is applied, strong effects on the transport properties are observed. The temperature dependence of magnetoresistivity $\Delta\rho$ = $\rho (T, H)$ - $\rho (T, H=0)$ develops a maximum around 30 K, deviating from ordinary metallic behavior. Analysis of the Hall coefficient measurements indicates that the carrier density is 0.04 per formula unit at 300 K and drops by two orders of magnitude below $T_c$. The effective mass of charge carriers is inferred from the analysis of the Shubnikov-de Haas quantum oscillations to be close to the bare electron mass. Comment: 7 pages, 8 figures, published in PRM |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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