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Triangle anomaly in Weyl semi-metals

High Energy Physics - Theory 2014-01-30 v3 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Theory

Abstract

Weyl semimetals possess massless chiral quasi-particles, and are thus affected by the triangle anomalies. We discuss the features of the chiral magnetic and chiral vortical effects specific to Weyl semimetals, and then propose three novel phenomena caused by the triangle anomalies in this material: 1) anomaly cooling; 2) charge transport by soliton waves as described by the Burgers' equation, and 3) the shift of the BKT phase transition of superfluid vortices coupled to Weyl fermions. In addition, we establish the conditions under which the chiral magnetic current exists in real materials.

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@article{arxiv.1305.6338,
  title  = {Triangle anomaly in Weyl semi-metals},
  author = {Gokce Basar and Dmitri E. Kharzeev and Ho-Ung Yee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1305.6338},
  year   = {2014}
}

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v3. Improved figures, minor changes in the text, 24 pages, 3 figures

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