Magnetic breakdown spectrum of a Kramers–Weyl semimetal
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Abstract
We calculate the Landau levels of a Kramers–Weyl semimetal thin slab in a perpendicular magnetic field B. The coupling of Fermi arcs on opposite surfaces broadens the Landau levels with a band width that oscillates periodically in 1/B. We interpret the spectrum in terms of a one-dimensional superlattice induced by magnetic breakdown at Weyl points. The band width oscillations may be observed as 1/B-periodic magnetoconductance oscillations, at weaker fields and higher temperatures than the Shubnikov–de Haas oscillations due to Landau level quantization. No such spectrum appears in a generic Weyl semimetal, the Kramers degeneracy at time-reversally invariant momenta is essential.
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Presenters
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Alvaro Donis Vela
Leiden University
Authors
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Alvaro Donis Vela
Leiden University
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Gal Lemut
Leiden University
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Michal Pacholski
Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems
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Jakub Tworzydlo
University of Warsaw, Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw
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Carlo W Beenakker
Leiden University