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Main Authors: Barua, Sourabh, Lees, M. R., Balakrishnan, G., Goddard, P. A.
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.00498
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author Barua, Sourabh
Lees, M. R.
Balakrishnan, G.
Goddard, P. A.
author_facet Barua, Sourabh
Lees, M. R.
Balakrishnan, G.
Goddard, P. A.
contents The list of interesting electrical properties exhibited by transition metal dichalcogenides has grown with the discovery of extremely large magnetoresistance (MR) and type-II Weyl semimetal behaviour in WTe$_2$ and MoTe$_2$. The extremely large MR in WTe$_2$ is still not adequately understood. Here, we systematically study the effect of Mo substitution on the quantum oscillations in the MR in WTe$_2$. The MR decreases with Mo substitution, however, the carrier concentrations extracted from the quantum oscillations show that the charge compensation improves. We believe that earlier interpretations based on the two-band theory, which attribute the decrease in MR to charge imbalance, could be incorrect due to over-parametrization. We attribute the decrease in MR in the presence of charge compensation to a fall in transport mobility, which is evident from the residual resistivity ratio data. The quantum scattering time and the effective masses do not change within experimental errors upon substitution.
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spellingShingle Quantum oscillation study of the large magnetoresistance in Mo substituted WTe$_2$ single crystals
Barua, Sourabh
Lees, M. R.
Balakrishnan, G.
Goddard, P. A.
Strongly Correlated Electrons
The list of interesting electrical properties exhibited by transition metal dichalcogenides has grown with the discovery of extremely large magnetoresistance (MR) and type-II Weyl semimetal behaviour in WTe$_2$ and MoTe$_2$. The extremely large MR in WTe$_2$ is still not adequately understood. Here, we systematically study the effect of Mo substitution on the quantum oscillations in the MR in WTe$_2$. The MR decreases with Mo substitution, however, the carrier concentrations extracted from the quantum oscillations show that the charge compensation improves. We believe that earlier interpretations based on the two-band theory, which attribute the decrease in MR to charge imbalance, could be incorrect due to over-parametrization. We attribute the decrease in MR in the presence of charge compensation to a fall in transport mobility, which is evident from the residual resistivity ratio data. The quantum scattering time and the effective masses do not change within experimental errors upon substitution.
title Quantum oscillation study of the large magnetoresistance in Mo substituted WTe$_2$ single crystals
topic Strongly Correlated Electrons
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.00498