Electron transport in nodal-line semimetals
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Syzranov, S. V.; Skinner, Brian J
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We study the electrical conductivity in a nodal-line semimetal with charged impurities. The screening of the Coulomb potential in this system is qualitatively different from what is found in conventional metals or semiconductors, with the screened potential ϕ decaying as ϕ∝1/r[superscript 2] over a wide interval of distances r. This unusual screening gives rise to a rich variety of conduction regimes as a function of temperature, doping level, and impurity concentration. In particular, nodal-line semimetals exhibit a diverging mobility ∝1/|μ| in the limit of vanishing chemical potential μ, a linearly increasing dependence of the conductivity on temperature, σ∝T, and a large weak-localization correction with a strongly anisotropic dependence on magnetic field.
Date issued
2017-10Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Laboratory of ElectronicsJournal
Physical Review B
Publisher
American Physical Society
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Syzranov, S. V., and B. Skinner. “Electron Transport in Nodal-Line Semimetals.” Physical Review B, vol. 96, no. 16, Oct. 2017. © 2017 American Physical Society
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2469-9950
2469-9969