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Competition between Pauli and orbital effects in a charge-density wave system

J. S. Qualls, L. Balicas, J. S. Brooks, N. Harrison, L. K. Montgomery, M. Tokumoto

cond-mat.mtrl-sciarXiv:cond-mat/0005201

Abstract

We present angular dependent magneto-transport and magnetization measurements on alpha-(ET)2MHg(SCN)4 compounds at high magnetic fields and low temperatures. We find that the low temperature ground state undergoes two subsequent field-induced density-wave type phase transitions above a critical angle of the magnetic field with respect to the crystallographic axes. This new phase diagram may be qualitatively described assuming a charge density wave ground state which undergoes field-induced transitions due to the interplay of Pauli and orbital effects.

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