Hall plateaus at magic angles in bismuth beyond the quantum limit

Fauque, Benoit;Yang, Huan;Sheikin, Ilya;Balicas, Luis;Behnia, Kamran;et.al.
(2009) Physical review. B, Condensed matter and materials physics — Vol. 79, n° 24 (2009)

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  • Fauque, Benoit
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  • Yang, Huan
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  • Sheikin, Ilya
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  • Balicas, Luis
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  • Issi, Jean-PaulUCLouvain
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  • Behnia, Kamran
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Abstract
We present a study of the angular dependence of the resistivity tensor up to 35 T in elemental bismuth complemented by torque magnetometry measurements in a similar configuration. For at least two particular field orientations a few degrees off the trigonal axis, the Hall resistivity was found to become field independent within experimental resolution in a finite field window corresponding to a field which is roughly three times the frequency of quantum oscillations. The Hall plateaus rapidly vanish as the field is tilted off these magic angles. We identify two distinct particularities of these specific orientations, which may play a role in the emergence of the Hall plateaus.
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Fauque, B., Yang, H., Sheikin, I., Balicas, L., Issi, J.-P., & Behnia, K. (2009). Hall plateaus at magic angles in bismuth beyond the quantum limit. Physical review. B, Condensed matter and materials physics, 79(24). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.79.245124 (Original work published 2009)