# Strong electrical magneto-chiral anisotropy in tellurium

## TL;DR

This paper reports the experimental detection of a significant electrical magneto-chiral anisotropy in tellurium crystals, introduces its tensorial nature, and proposes a new bandstructure-based mechanism to explain the effect.

## Contribution

It presents the first experimental observation of strong eMChA in tellurium and introduces a novel intrinsic mechanism based on bandstructure for this effect.

## Key findings

- Strong eMChA observed in tellurium crystals
- Tensorial characterization of the effect conducted
- Proposed a bandstructure-based theoretical explanation

## Abstract

We report the experimental observation of strong electrical magneto-chiral anistropy (eMChA) in trigonal tellurium (t-Te) crystals. We introduce the tensorial character of the effect and determine several tensor elements and we propose a novel intrinsic bandstructure-based mechanism for eMChA which gives a reasonable description of the principal results.