Non-local Signatures of the Chiral Magnetic Effect in Dirac Semimetal Bi0.97Sb0.03

ORAL

Abstract

Recently there has been a lot of interest in 3D Dirac semimetals (DSM), which exhibit robust Dirac phases in the bulk of the material. The chiral magnetic effect (CME), which originates from the Weyl cones, causes an E.B-dependent chiral charge polarization, which manifests itself as negative magnetoresistance.

We exploit the extended lifetime of this chirally polarized charge and study the CME in both local and non-local measurements on structured devices of mechanically exfoliated single crystalline flakes of DSM Bi1-xSbx with x ≈ 0.03. From the transport measurements on the non-local devices we find that the chiral charge relaxation time is over an order of magnitude larger than the transport lifetime.

Presenters

  • Daan Wielens

    University of Twente

Authors

  • Daan Wielens

    University of Twente

  • Jorrit C. De Boer

    University of Twente

  • Joris A. Voerman

    University of Twente

  • Bob de Ronde

    University of Twente

  • Yingkai Huang

    University of Amsterdam, Zeeman Institute, University of Amsterdam

  • Mark Golden

    University of Amsterdam, Zeeman Institute, University of Amsterdam

  • Chuan Li

    MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente, University of Twente

  • Alexander Brinkman

    University of Twente