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The recent observation of extremely large magnetoresistance (MR) in the transition-metal dichalcogenide MoTe 2  has attracted considerable interest due to its potential technological applications as well as its relationship with novel electronic states predicted for a candidate type-II Weyl semimetal. In order to understand the origin of the MR, the electronic structure of MoTe 2− x   ( x  = 0.08) is systematically tuned by application of pressure and probed via its Hall and longitudinal conductivities. With increasing pressure, a monoclinic-to-orthorhombic (1 T′ to T d ) structural phase transition temperature ( T *) gradually decreases from 210 K at 1 bar to 58 K at 1.1 GPa, and there is no anomaly associated with the phase transition at 1.4 GPa, indicating that a  T  = 0 K quantum phase transition occurs at a critical pressure ( P   c  ) between 1.1 and 1.4 GPa. The large MR observed at 1 bar is suppressed with increasing pressure and is almost saturated at 100% for  P  >  P   c  . The dependence on magnetic field of the Hall and longitudinal conductivities of MoTe 2− x   shows that a pair of electron and hole bands are important in the low-pressure T d  phase, while another pair of electron and hole bands are additionally required in the high-pressure 1 T′ phase. The MR peaks at a characteristic hole-to-electron concentration ratio ( n   c  ) and is sharply suppressed when the ratio deviates from  n   c   within the T d  phase. These results establish the comprehensive temperature-pressure phase diagram of MoTe 2− x   and underscore that its MR originates from balanced electron-hole carrier concentrations.

Origin of extremely large magnetoresistance in the candidate type-II Weyl semimetal MoTe2−x