Observation of orbital resonance Hall effect in (TMTSF)2ClO4.
We report the observation of a Hall effect driven by orbital resonance in the quasi-1-dimensional (q1D) organic conductor (TMTSF)2ClO4. Although a conventional Hall effect is not expected in this class of materials due to their reduced dimensionality, we observed a prominent Hall response at certain orientations of the magnetic field B corresponding to lattice vectors of the constituent molecular chains, known as the magic angles (MAs). We show that this Hall effect can be understood as the response of conducting planes generated by an effective locking of the orbital motion of the charge carriers to the MA driven by an electron-trajectory resonance. This phenomenon supports a class of theories describing the rich behavior of MA phenomena in q1D materials based on altered dimensionality. Furthermore, we observed that the effective carrier density of the conducting planes is exponentially suppressed in large B, which indicates possible density wave formation.
Aoyama Gakuin University, Kanagawa 252-5258, Japan.
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Kobayashi
National Institute for Material Science, Ibaraki 305-0003, Japan.
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Satsukawa
University of Hyogo, Hyogo 678-1297, Japan.
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Yamada
National Institute for Material Science, Ibaraki 305-0003, Japan.
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Terashima
National Institute for Material Science, Ibaraki 305-0003, Japan.
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Uji