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Fermi-arc metals

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2023-05-15 v3 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We predict a novel metallic state of matter that emerges in a Weyl-semimetal superstructure with spatially varying Weyl-node positions. In the new state, the Weyl nodes are stretched into extended, anisotropic Fermi surfaces, which can be understood as being built from Fermi arc-like states. This "Fermi-arc metal" exhibits the chiral anomaly of the parental Weyl semimetal. However, unlike in the parental Weyl semimetal, in the Fermi-arc metal the "ultra-quantum state", in which the anomalous chiral Landau level is the only state at the Fermi energy, is already reached for a finite energy window at zero magnetic field. The dominance of the ultra-quantum state implies a universal low-field ballistic magnetoconductance and the absence of quantum oscillations, making the Fermi surface "invisible" to de Haas-van Alphen and Shubnikov-de Haas effects, although it signifies its presence in other response properties.

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@article{arxiv.2212.11059,
  title  = {Fermi-arc metals},
  author = {Maxim Breitkreiz and Piet W. Brouwer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.11059},
  year   = {2023}
}

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7 pages, 3 figures

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