Nontrivial topology of bulk HgSe from the study of cyclotron effective mass, electron mobility and phase shift of Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations

摘要

In this paper, the authors report the results of an experimental study of effective mass, electron mobility and phase shift of Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations of transverse magnetoresistance in an extended electron concentration region from 8.8 x 10(15) cm(-3) to 4.3 x 10(18) cm(-3) in single crystals of mercury selenide. The revealed features indicate that Weyl semimetal phase may exist in HgSe at low electron density. The most significant result is the discovery of an abrupt change of Berry phase approximate to pi at electron concentration approximate to 2 x 10(18) cm(-3), which we explain in terms of a manifestation of topological Lifshitz transition in HgSe that occurs by tuning Fermi energy via doping.