Three-Dimensional Anisotropic Magnetoresistance in the Dirac Node-Line Material ZrSiSe

Haiyang Pan; Bingbing Tong; Jihai Yu; Jue Wang; Dongzhi Fu; Shuai Zhang; Bin Wu; Xiangang Wan; Chi Zhang; Xuefeng Wang; Fengqi Song

doi:10.1038/s41598-018-27148-z

Three-Dimensional Anisotropic Magnetoresistance in the Dirac Node-Line Material ZrSiSe

Sci Rep. 2018 Jun 19;8(1):9340. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-27148-z.

Authors

Haiyang Pan¹, Bingbing Tong², Jihai Yu¹, Jue Wang¹, Dongzhi Fu¹, Shuai Zhang¹, Bin Wu¹, Xiangang Wan^{1

3}, Chi Zhang², Xuefeng Wang^{4

5}, Fengqi Song^{6

7}

Affiliations

¹ National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, School of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China.
² International Center for Quantum Materials, Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China.
³ Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China.
⁴ School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China. xfwang@nju.edu.cn.
⁵ Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China. xfwang@nju.edu.cn.
⁶ National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, School of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China. songfengqi@nju.edu.cn.
⁷ Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China. songfengqi@nju.edu.cn.

Abstract

The family of materials defined as ZrSiX (X = S, Se, Te) has been established as Dirac node-line semimetals, and subsequent study is urgent to exploit the promising applications of unusual magnetoresistance (MR) properties. Herein, we systematically investigated the anisotropic MR in the newly-discovered Dirac node-line material ZrSiSe. By applying a magnetic field of 3 T by a vector field, three-dimensional (3D) MR shows the strong anisotropy. The MR ratio of maximum and minimum directions reaches 7 at 3 T and keeps increasing at the higher magnetic field. The anisotropic MR forms a butterfly-shaped curve, indicating the quasi-2D electronic structures. This is further confirmed by the angular dependent Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations. The first-principles calculations establish the quasi-2D tubular-shaped Fermi surface near the X point in the Brillouin zone. Our finding sheds light on the 3D mapping of MR and the potential applications in magnetic sensors based on ZrSiSe.