High-field immiscibility of electrons belonging to adjacent twinned bismuth crystals

Autor: Yuhao Ye, Akiyoshi Yamada, Yuto Kinoshita, Jinhua Wang, Pan Nie, Liangcai Xu, Huakun Zuo, Masashi Tokunaga, Neil Harrison, Ross D. McDonald, Alexey V. Suslov, Arzhang Ardavan, Moon-Sun Nam, David LeBoeuf, Cyril Proust, Benoît Fauqué, Yuki Fuseya, Zengwei Zhu, Kamran Behnia
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: npj Quantum Materials, Vol 9, Iss 1, Pp 1-9 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2397-4648
DOI: 10.1038/s41535-024-00625-7
Popis: Abstract Bulk bismuth has a complex Landau spectrum. The small effective masses and the large g-factors are anisotropic. The chemical potential drifts at high magnetic fields. Moreover, twin boundaries further complexify the interpretation of the data by producing extra anomalies in the extreme quantum limit. Here, we present a study of angle dependence of magnetoresistance up to 65 T in bismuth complemented with Nernst, ultrasound, and magneto-optic data. All observed anomalies can be explained in a single-particle picture of a sample consisting of two twinned crystals tilted by 108° and with two adjacent crystals keeping their own chemical potentials despite a shift between chemical potentials as large as 68 meV at 65 T. This implies an energy barrier between adjacent twinned crystals reminiscent of a metal- semiconductor Schottky barrier or a p-n junction. We argue that this barrier is built by accumulating charge carriers of opposite signs across a twin boundary.
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