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.

*This project has received funding from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO/OCW) and from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.

Presenters

  • Alvaro Donis Vela

    • Leiden University

Authors

  • Alvaro Donis Vela

    • Leiden University
  • Gal Lemut

    • Leiden University
  • Michal Pacholski

    • Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems
  • Jakub Tworzydlo

    • University of Warsaw
    • Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw
  • Carlo W Beenakker

    • Leiden University