Extraordinary magnetoresistance in graphite: experimental evidence for the time-reversal symmetry breaking

Details Extraordinary magnetoresistance in graphite: experimental evidence for the time-reversal symmetry breaking Extraordinary magnetoresistance in graphite: experimental evidence for the time-reversal symmetry breaking

2012-02-25

arxiv.org/abs/1202.5642v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

4 pages, 5 figures

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The ordinary magnetoresistance (MR) of doped semiconductors is positive and quadratic in a low magnetic field, B, as it should be in the framework of the Boltzmann kinetic theory or in the conventional hopping regime. We observe an unusual highly-anisotropic in-plane MR in graphite, which is neither quadratic nor always positive. In a certain current direction MR is negative and linear in B in fields below a few tens of mT with a crossover to a positive MR at higher fields, while in a perpendicular current direction we observe a giant super-linear and positive MR. These extraordinary MRs are respectively explained by a hopping magneto-conductance via non-zero angular momentum orbitals, and by the magneto-conductance of inhomogeneous media. The linear orbital NMR is a unique signature of the broken time-reversal symmetry (TRS) in graphite. While some local paramagnetic centers could be responsible for the broken TRS, the observed large diamagnetism suggests a more intriguing mechanism of this breaking, involving superconducting clusters with unconventional (chiral) order parameters and spontaneously generated normal-state current loops in graphite.

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