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HL: Fachverband Halbleiterphysik
HL 20: Frontiers of Electronic Structure Theory: Focus on Topology and Transport
HL 20.3: Talk
Monday, March 7, 2016, 16:15–16:30, H51
Extremely high magnetoresistance in topological insulator candidate LaBi — •Nitesh Kumar, Chandra Shekhar, and Claudia Felser — Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, 01187 Dresden, Germany.
Lanthanum monopnictides (LaX, X=N, P, As, Sb, Bi) have recently been predicted to be topological insulators, except LaN which is a topological semimetal. Inspired from this report we have studied the transport properties of LaBi. It has a simple rock salt-type structure with alternate La and Bi atoms arranged in all three directions. Temperature variation of resistivity at different magnetic fields follows Kohler’s rule. Resistivity follows almost a parabolic relation with magnetic field without saturation, exhibiting a huge magnetoresistance (1.5 x105% at 2 K and 9 T). By employing two band model we calculate carrier density and mobility of electrons and holes which suggests that LaBi is a compensated system. We believe this to be responsible for high unsaturated MR in LaBi. We observe excellent Shubnikov-de Haas (SdH) oscillations starting from around 3T. We also analyse the angle and temperature dependence of these oscillations.