Angle-resolved Landau spectrum of electrons and holes in bismuth

Details Angle-resolved Landau spectrum of electrons and holes in bismuth Angle-resolved Landau spectrum of electrons and holes in bismuth

2011-07-13

arxiv.org/abs/1107.2517v2

Phys. Rev. B 84, 115137 (2011)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

13 pages, 13 figures, To appear in Phys. Rev. B

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In elemental bismuth, emptying the low-index Landau levels is accompanied by giant Nernst quantum oscillations. The Nernst response sharply peaks each time a Landau level intersects the chemical potential. By studying the evolution of these peaks when the field rotates in three perpendicular planes defined by three high-symmetry axes, we have mapped the angle-resolved Landau spectrum of the system up to 12 T. A theoretical model treating electrons at L point with an extended Dirac Hamiltonian is confronted with the experimentally-resolved spectrum. We obtain a set of theoretical parameters yielding a good but imperfect agreement between theory and experiment for all orientations of the magnetic field in space. The results confirm the relevance of the Dirac spectrum to the electron pockets and settle the longstanding uncertainty about the magnitude of the g-factor for holes. According to our analysis, a magnetic field exceeding 2.5 T applied along the bisectrix axis puts all carriers of the three electron pockets in their lowest($j=0$) spin-polarized Landau level. On top of this complex angle-dependent spectrum, experiment detects additional and unexpected Nernst peaks of unidentified origin.

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