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Chiral Anomaly and Classical Negative Magnetoresistance of Weyl Metals

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2015-03-06 v1

Abstract

We consider the classical magnetoresistance of a Weyl metal in which the electron Fermi surface possess nonzero fluxes of the Berry curvature. Such a system may exhibit large negative magnetoresistance with unusual anisotropy as a function of the angle between the electric and magnetic fields. In this case the system can support a new type of plasma waves. These phenomena are consequences of chiral anomaly in electron transport theory.

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@article{arxiv.1206.1627,
  title  = {Chiral Anomaly and Classical Negative Magnetoresistance of Weyl Metals},
  author = {D. T. Son and B. Z. Spivak},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1206.1627},
  year   = {2015}
}

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4 pages, 2 figures