Large negative magnetoresistance beyond chiral anomaly in topological insulator candidate CeCuAs2 with spin-glass-like behavior

Long Chen; Yuhao Gu; Yulong Wang; Ying Zhou; Ke Liao; Yue Pan; Xianxin Wu; Ying Li; Zhichuan Wang; Yuzhe Ma; Zhongnan Guo; Jie Ma; Dong Su; Jiangping Hu; Gang Wang

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Large negative magnetoresistance beyond chiral anomaly in topological insulator candidate CeCuAs₂ with spin-glass-like behavior

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Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
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University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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Department of Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Biological Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China
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Key Laboratory of Artificial Structures and Quantum Control, School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
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Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory, Dongguan, Guangdong 523808, China
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Corresponding authors: jphu@iphy.ac.cn (J. H.); gangwang@iphy.ac.cn (G. W.)
Received Date: 06 March 2023

Accepted Date: 01 June 2023

Published Online: 13 June 2023

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1. Negative magnetoresistance (NMR) has unique performance in spintronics.
  
  CeCuAs₂ is classified as a strong topological insulator in its paramagnetic state.
  
  CeCuAs₂ exhibits large NMR beyond chiral anomaly, reaching -15% under 9 T at 2 K.
  
  A spin-glass-like state with T_f ~ 4.5 K hints possible spin-charge interaction.
  
  Tuning based on RE-Cu-As structural motif may provide new insights to explore NMR.

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Large negative magnetoresistance (NMR), an important property for spintronics, requires experimental realization owing to the lack of suitable structural motifs. Herein, a remarkable NMR of up to -15% under 9 T at 2 K is demonstrated in a 112-type topological insulator candidate CeCuAs₂ single crystal containing an As square net. Due to the presence of Dirac points coming from both the As square net and Ce–Cu–As layer in the paramagnetic state of CeCuAs₂, the possibility of chiral anomaly is examined and eliminated by investigating magnetoresistance (MR) with different magnetic field configurations and angle-dependant MR, which show no specific restriction on the configurations under the applied magnetic fields. Upon investigation of the anisotropic magnetism, a spin-glass-like behavior with T_f ~ 4.5 K is observed in CeCuAs₂, indicating that the large NMR could be attributed to the spin-dependent scattering induced by the possible spin-glass state. Hall resistivity exhibits a multiband feature and hole-dominated transport properties, corresponding well with the calculated band structure. This study not only offers a new building block for large NMR but also serves as a guide for the investigating the interplay among transport properties, topology, and magnetism, and it is expected to broaden the research on spintronics.

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Chen L., Gu Y., Wang Y., et al., (2023). Large negative magnetoresistance beyond chiral anomaly in topological insulator candidate CeCuAs2 with spin-glass-like behavior. The Innovation Materials 1(1), 100011. https://doi.org/10.59717/j.xinn-mater.2023.100011

Chen L., Gu Y., Wang Y., et al., (2023). Large negative magnetoresistance beyond chiral anomaly in topological insulator candidate CeCuAs₂ with spin-glass-like behavior. The Innovation Materials 1(1), 100011. https://doi.org/10.59717/j.xinn-mater.2023.100011

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