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Evidence of anisotropic Landau level splitting in topological semimetal ZrSiS under high magnetic fields

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Magneto-transport study has been performed in topological semimetal ZrSiS single crystals under high pulsed magnetic fields. Obvious dependence of Landau level splitting on temperature and angular was investigated. The strong three-dimensional anisotropic nature of Landau level splitting under high pulsed magnetic fields was revealed by the angular dependent measurements, in which the orbital contribution is more dominant than Zeeman splitting. Our studies provide more insights into the physical properties of topological semimetals ZrSiS and shed light on future spintronic applications of ZrSiS.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (Grant No. 2016YFA0300803), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61427812, 11774160, 11574137, 11874203, 61822403, and U1732159), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant No. 021014380080). The authors also would like to thank the supports from the Collaborative Innovation Center of Solid State Lighting and Energy-saving Electronics and the Program for High-level Entrepreneurial and Innovative Talent Introduction, Jiangsu Province.

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    Jun-Ran Zhang, Bo Liu, Ming Gao, Yong-Bing Xu & Rong Zhang

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Zhang, JR., Liu, B., Gao, M. et al. Evidence of anisotropic Landau level splitting in topological semimetal ZrSiS under high magnetic fields. Front. Phys. 14, 63602 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11467-019-0920-5

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