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h/e oscillations in interlayer transport of delafossites

Putzke, Carsten  
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Bachmann, Maja D.
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McGuinness, Philippa
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June 12, 2020
Science

Microstructures can be carefully designed to reveal the quantum phase of the wave-like nature of electrons in a metal. Here, we report phase-coherent oscillations of out-of-plane magnetoresistance in the layered delafossites PdCoO2 and PtCoO2. The oscillation period is equivalent to that determined by the magnetic flux quantum, h/e, threading an area defined by the atomic interlayer separation and the sample width, where h is Planck's constant and e is the charge of an electron. The phase of the electron wave function appears robust over length scales exceeding 10 micrometers and persisting up to temperatures of T > 50 kelvin. We show that the experimental signal stems from a periodic field modulation of the out-of-plane hopping. These results demonstrate extraordinary single-particle quantum coherence lengths in delafossites.

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DOI
10.1126/science.aay8413
Web of Science ID

WOS:000544031400030

Author(s)
Putzke, Carsten  
Bachmann, Maja D.
McGuinness, Philippa
Zhakina, Elina
Sunko, Veronika
Konczykowski, Marcin
Oka, Takashi
Moessner, Roderich
Stern, Ady
Koenig, Markus
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Date Issued

2020-06-12

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science

Published in
Science
Volume

368

Issue

6496

Start page

1234

End page

1238

Subjects

Multidisciplinary Sciences

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Science & Technology - Other Topics

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aharonov-bohm oscillations

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conductivity

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interference

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crystal

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growth

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pdcoo2

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