Title
Negative c-axis magnetoresistance in graphite
Date Issued
11 October 2010
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Universidad Estadual de Campinas
Publisher(s)
Elsevier B.V.
Abstract
We have studied the c-axis interlayer magnetoresistance (ILMR), Rc(B) in graphite. The measurements have been performed on strongly anisotropic highly oriented pyrolytic graphite (HOPG) and single crystalline Kish graphite samples in magnetic field up to B=9 T, and the temperature interval 2 K≤T≤300 K. We have observed negative magnetoresistance, dRc/dB<0, for Bc-axis for both samples above a certain field Bm(T)>5.4 T and 0.2 T for HOPG and Kish graphite, respectively. The results can be understood consistently by assuming that ILMR is related to a tunneling between zero-energy Landau levels of quasi-two-dimensional Dirac fermions, in a close analogy with the behavior reported for α-(BEDT-TTF)2I3 [N. Tajima, et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 102 (2009) 176403], another multilayer Dirac electron system. © 2010 Elsevier B.V.
Start page
4629
End page
4632
Volume
374
Issue
45
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Física atómica, molecular y química
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-77957783154
Source
Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics
ISSN of the container
03759601
Sponsor(s)
This work was partially supported by FAPESP , CNPq , and INCT NAMITEC .
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