Temperature-Induced Lifshitz Transition in WTe$_{2}$
ORAL
Abstract
We use thermoeletric power (TEP), temperature- and field-dependent resistivity, and ultrahigh resolution, tunable, vacuum ultraviolet laser-based, angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) measurements to study the electronic properties of WTe$_2$, a compound that manifests exceptionally large, temperature-dependent magnetoresistance. The Fermi surface consists of two pairs of electron and two pairs of hole pockets along the $X-\Gamma-X$ direction. We find a rare example of a temperature-induced Lifshitz transition at $T \approx 160$ K. Temperature dependent TEP shows a change of slope at $T \approx$ 175 K and Kohler's rule was breakdown in the 70-140 K range. ARPES temperature scans confirm that the hole pockets completely disappear around 160 K. Our electronic structure calculations show a clear and substantial shift of the chemical potential $\mu(T)$ due to the semimetal nature of this material driven by modest changes in temperature. [PRL 115, 166602 (2015)]
*This work is supported by the US DOE, Basic Energy Sciences under Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11358; Betty Moore Foundation EPiQS Initiative (Grant No. GBMF4411); and CEM, a NSF MRSEC, under Grant No. DMR-1420451.
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