Zeeman effect of the topological surface states revealed by quantum oscillations up to 91 Tesla

Zuocheng Zhang, Wei Wei, Fangyuan Yang, Zengwei Zhu, Minghua Guo, Yang Feng, Dejing Yu, Mengyu Yao, Neil Harrison, Ross McDonald, Yuanbo Zhang, Dandan Guan, Dong Qian, Jinfeng Jia, and Yayu Wang
Phys. Rev. B 92, 235402 – Published 1 December 2015

Abstract

We report quantum oscillation studies on the Bi2Te3xSx topological insulator single crystals in pulsed magnetic fields up to 91 T. For the x=0.4 sample with the lowest bulk carrier density, the surface and bulk quantum oscillations can be disentangled by combined Shubnikov–de Haas and de Hass–van Alphen oscillations, as well as quantum oscillations in nanometer-thick peeled crystals. At high magnetic fields beyond the bulk quantum limit, our results suggest that the zeroth Landau level of topological surface states is shifted due to the Zeeman effect. The g factor of the topological surface states is estimated to be between 1.8 and 4.5. These observations shed new light on the quantum transport phenomena of topological insulators in ultrahigh magnetic fields.

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  • Received 18 May 2015
  • Revised 3 September 2015

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.92.235402

©2015 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Zuocheng Zhang1,2, Wei Wei3, Fangyuan Yang4, Zengwei Zhu2, Minghua Guo1, Yang Feng1, Dejing Yu3, Mengyu Yao3, Neil Harrison2, Ross McDonald2, Yuanbo Zhang4,5, Dandan Guan3,5, Dong Qian3,5, Jinfeng Jia3,5,*, and Yayu Wang1,6,†

  • 1State Key Laboratory of Low Dimensional Quantum Physics, Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
  • 2National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA
  • 3Key Laboratory of Artificial Structures and Quantum Control (Ministry of Education), Department of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
  • 4State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics and Department of Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
  • 5Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing 210093, China
  • 6Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Beijing, China

  • *jfjia@sjtu.edu.cn
  • yayuwang@tsinghua.edu.cn

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Vol. 92, Iss. 23 — 15 December 2015

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