Quantum Transport in the Charge-Density-Wave State of the Quasi Two-Dimensional Bronzes (${\bf PO_2}$) 4(${\bf WO_3}$)$_{\bf 2m}({\bf m}={\bf 4, 6})$

C. Le Touze; G. Bonfait; C. Schlenker; J. Dumas; M. Almeida; M. Greenblatt; Z.S. Teweldemedhin

doi:doi:10.1051/jp1:1995100

This article has an erratum: [https://doi.org/10.1051/jp1:1995146]

Issue		J. Phys. I France Volume 5, Number 4, April 1995


Page(s)		437 - 442
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/jp1:1995100

DOI: 10.1051/jp1:1995100
J. Phys. I France 5 (1995) 437-442

Quantum Transport in the Charge-Density-Wave State of the Quasi Two-Dimensional Bronzes ( ${\bf PO_2}$ ) $_{\bf 4}$ ( ${\bf WO_3}$ ) $_{\bf 2m}({\bf m}={\bf 4, 6})$

C. Le Touze¹, G. Bonfait², C. Schlenker¹, J. Dumas¹, M. Almeida², M. Greenblatt³ and Z.S. Teweldemedhin³

¹ Laboratoire d'Etudes des Propriétés Electroniques des Solides CNRS, BP 166, 38042 Grenoble Cedex 9, France
² Departamento de Quimica, ICEN, INETI, P-2686 Sacavem Codex, Portugal
³ Department of Chemistry, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, N.J. 08855-0939, U.S.A.

(Received 6 February 1995, accepted 17 February 1995)

Abstract
Magnetotransport has been studied on the quasi two-dimensional monophosphate tungsten bronzes (PO ₂) ₄(WO ₃) _2m for m=4 and 6, between 0.3 and 300 K in fields up to 18 T. These compounds show several charge density wave transitions. Large magnetoresistance is found in the charge-density-wave state for magnetic fields applied perpendicular to the layers. At low temperatures, Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations are attributed to the existence of small carrier pockets left by the charge density wave gap opening. The size of these pockets is of the order of a few % of the two-dimensional high temperature Brillouin zone and smaller in the case m=6 than in m=4. This is due to a more pronounced low-dimensional character and therefore to a better Fermi surface nesting in the compound m=6 than in m=4.

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Quantum Transport in the Charge-Density-Wave State of the Quasi Two-Dimensional Bronzes ( ${\bf PO_2}$ ) $_{\bf 4}$ ( ${\bf WO_3}$ ) $_{\bf 2m}({\bf m}={\bf 4, 6})$