Intervalley Tunneling and Crossover from the Positive to Negative Interlayer Magnetoresistance in Quasi-Two-Dimensional Dirac Fermion System with or without Mass Gap

Abstract

We theoretically investigate the interlayer magnetoresistance in quasi-two-dimensional Dirac fermion systems, where the Fermi energy is at the Dirac point. If there is an intermediate insulating layer that has an overlap with the wave functions in the Dirac fermion layers, there appears a positive magnetoresistance regime due to the intervalley tunneling. We show that the interlayer magnetoresistance can be used to find whether Dirac fermions are massive or not from the minimum in the interlayer magnetoresistance. As a specific system, we consider \alphaI under high pressure. We also discuss that one has to be careful in analyzing the crossover temperature from the positive to negative magnetoresistance. A simple picture is applied to the crossover in the zero temperature limit but it does not apply to the data at finite temperatures. We show that the ratio of the Fermi velocity to the scattering rate is evaluated from the zero temperature limit of the crossover temperature.

8 pages, 7 figures

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