Transport study of the Berry phase, resistivity rule, and quantum Hall effect in graphite

Transport measurements indicate strong oscillations in the Hall, R(xy), and the diagonal, R(xx), resistances and exhibit Hall plateaus at the lowest temperatures, in three-dimensional (3D) highly oriented pyrolytic graphite. At the same time, a comparative Shubnikov-de Haas-oscillations-based Berry phase analysis indicates that graphite is unlike the GaAs/AlGaAs two-dimensional electron system, the 3D n-GaAs epilayer, semiconducting Hg(0.8)Cd(0.2)Te, and some other systems. Finally, we observe the transport data to follow B x dR(xy)/dB approximate to -Delta R(xx). This feature is consistent with the observed relative phases of the oscillatory R(xx) and R(xy).