The thickness dependence of quantum oscillations in ferromagnetic Weyl metal SrRuO3
Uddipta Kar, Akhilesh Kr. Singh, Yu‐Te Hsu, Chih-Yu Lin, Bipul Das, Cheng-Tung Cheng, Maarten Berben, Song Yang, Chun‐Yen Lin, Chia‐Hung Hsu, S. Wiedmann, Wei‐Cheng Lee, Wei‐Li Lee
Abstract
Abstract In a thin Weyl semimetal, a thickness dependent Weyl-orbit quantum oscillation was proposed to exist, originating from a nonlocal cyclotron orbit via electron tunnelings between top and bottom Fermi-arc surface states. Here, magneto-transport measurements were carried out on untwinned Weyl metal SrRuO 3 thin films. In particular, quantum oscillations with a frequency F s1 ≈ 30 T were identified, corresponding to a small Fermi pocket with a light effective mass. Its oscillation amplitude appears to be at maximum for thicknesses in a range of 10 to 20 nm, and the phase of oscillation exhibits a systematic change with film thickness. The constructed Landau fan diagram shows an unusual concave downward curvature in the 1/ μ 0 H n - n curve, where n is the Landau level index. From thickness and field-orientation dependence, the F s1 oscillation is attributed to be of surface origin. Those findings can be understood within the framework of the Weyl-orbit quantum oscillation effect with non-adiabatic corrections.