Quantum oscillations and phase diagram of α(BEDTTTF)2TlHg(SCN)4

Cyril Proust, Alain Audouard, Alexei Kovalev, David Vignolles, Mark Kartsovnik, Luc Brossard, and Natalia Kushch
Phys. Rev. B 62, 2388 – Published 15 July 2000
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Abstract

The interlayer magnetoresistance of the quasi-two-dimensional organic conductor α(BEDTTTF)2TlHg(SCN)4 was measured during both up and down sweeps of long-pulse magnetic fields extending up to 36 T. The temperature–magnetic-field phase diagram was extensively studied through the field and temperature dependences of both the background and the oscillatory parts of the magnetoresistance. The hysteretic behavior of the magnetoresistance, the field-dependent Peierls-like transition temperature (TP), and the temperature-dependent kink transition were investigated. The field sensitivity of TP is interpreted on the basis of a competition between the Pauli and orbital effects in a mixed-charge and spin-density-wave state. Besides, a splitting of the kink transition is observed when the magnetic field is strongly tilted with respect to the normal to the conducting plane. Analysis of the oscillatory part of the magnetoresistance reveals a hysteretic behavior of the amplitude of the oscillations linked to the α orbit around both the kink transition and Bmax. Field-independent effective cyclotron mass parameters are derived in both the density wave and the normal metallic states.

  • Received 18 October 1999

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.62.2388

©2000 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Cyril Proust and Alain Audouard*

  • Laboratoire de Physique de la Matière Condensée (UMR CNRS 5830), Service National des Champs Magnétiques Pulsés, INSA, 135 avenue de Rangueil, F31077 Toulouse, France

Alexei Kovalev

  • Institute of Solid State Physics in Chernogolovka, Russian Academy of Sciences, Chernogolovka, MD 142432, Russia

David Vignolles

  • Laboratoire de Physique de la Matière Condensée (UMR CNRS 5830), Service National des Champs Magnétiques Pulsés, INSA, 135 avenue de Rangueil, F31077 Toulouse, France

Mark Kartsovnik

  • Walther-Meissneir Institut, Walther-Meissneir straße 8, D-85748, Garching, Germany
  • Institute of Solid State Physics in Chernogolovka, Russian Academy of Sciences, Chernogolovka, MD 142432, Russia

Luc Brossard

  • Laboratoire de Physique de la Matière Condensée (UMR CNRS 5830), Service National des Champs Magnétiques Pulsés, INSA, 135 avenue de Rangueil, F31077 Toulouse, France

Natalia Kushch

  • Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics in Chernogolovka, Russian Academy of Sciences, Chernogolovka, MD 142432, Russia

  • *Email: audouard@insatlse.insa-tlse.fr

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Vol. 62, Iss. 4 — 15 July 2000

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