Weyl semimetal WTehas attracted considerable attention owing to its extremely large, unsaturated and quadratic magnetoresistance. Here, we study the magnetotransport properties of WTethin film, which shows an unsaturated and linear magnetoresistance of up to ∼1650%. A more complex and accurate method, known as the maximum entropy mobility spectrum, is used to analyze the mobility and density of carriers. The results show that linear magnetoresistance can be explained by the classical disorder model because the slope of linear magnetoresistance and the crossover field are proportional to the mobility and inverse mobility, respectively. Furthermore, the validity of the maximum entropy mobility spectrum is validated by the Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations. Moreover, at low temperature, we determined that the unsaturated and near-quadratic magnetoresistance in the WTethin film can be explained by charge compensation. Note that the electron-hole compensation is broken in the WTethin film, which indicates that the carrier scattering induced by the disorder may suppress the charge compensation in the WTesample with defects/dopants. To summarize, the discovery of disorder-induced linear magnetoresistance allows us to explain different magnetoresistance behaviors of WTe.
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