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We demonstrate that in an ideal Weyl semimetal, in which the Fermi energy coincides with the band-touching nodes, weak direct inter-nodal scattering is irrelevant and, as a result, the chiral charge is (almost) exactly conserved. This leads…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-25 A. A. Burkov

Weyl semimetals realize massless relativistic fermions with two Weyl nodes separated in energy and momentum space, whose low-energy physics is described by Dirac fermions with an axial gauge constant. Here, we study their electromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-10 Tatsuya Amitani , Yusuke Nishida

Recent works have provided evidence that an axial anomaly can arise in Weyl semimetals. If this is the case, then the electromagnetic response of Weyl semimetals should be governed by the equations of axion electrodynamics. These equations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-18 Kuangyin Deng , John S. Van Dyke , Djordje Minic , J. J. Heremans , Edwin Barnes

In disordered Weyl semimetals, mechanisms of topological origin lead to novel mechanisms of transport, which manifest themselves in unconventional types of electromagnetic response. Prominent examples of transport phenomena particular to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-10 Alexander Altland , Dmitry Bagrets

The successful realization of the topological Weyl semimetals has revolutionized contemporary physics. In recent years, multi-Weyl semimetals, a class of topological Weyl semimetals, has attracted broad interest in condensed-matter physics.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-06-19 Amar Bharti , Gopal Dixit

We begin this review with an introduction and a discussion of Weyl fermions as emergent particles in condensed matter systems, and explain how high energy phenomena like the chiral anomaly can be seen in low energy experiments. We then…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Sumathi Rao

The study of charge-density wave (CDW) distortions in Weyl semimetals has recently returned to the forefront, inspired by experimental interest in materials such as (TaSe4)2I. However, the interplay between collective phonon excitations and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-27 Robert C. McKay , Barry Bradlyn

The physical properties of metals are often given by the sum of the contributions from the electrons consisting the Fermi surface (FS), and therefore, fine structures of the electronic bands and Bloch functions are often masked by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-31 Hiroaki Ishizuka , Naoto Nagaosa

Discovered in high-energy physics, the chiral anomaly has recently made way to materials science by virtue of Weyl semimetals (WSM). Thus far, the main efforts to probe the chiral anomaly in WSM have concentrated on electronic phenomena.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-09-14 Pierre Rinkel , Pedro L. S. Lopes , Ion Garate

There have been lots of interest in pyrochlore Iridates A2Ir2O7 where both strong spin-orbital coupling and strong correlation are present. A recent LDA calculation suggests that the system is likely in a novel three dimensional topological…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-09-20 Kai-Yu Yang , Yuan-Ming Lu , Ying Ran

Weyl semimetals are three dimensional analogs of graphene where the energy of the excitations are a linear function of their momentum. Pyrochlore Iridates $(A_{2}Ir_{2}O_{7})$ with A =yttrium or lanthanide element) are conjectured to be…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-30 Vivek Aji

In this work we introduce a thermal magnetotorsional effect (TME) as a novel topological response in magnetic Weyl semimetals. We predict that magnetization gradients perpendicular to the Weyl node separation give rise to temperature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-29 Long Liang , Teemu Ojanen

Chiral anomaly induced negative magnetoresistance (NMR) has been widely used as a critical transport evidence on the existence of Weyl fermions in topological semimetals. In this mini review, we discuss the general observation of the NMR…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-10-02 Yupeng Li , Zhen Wang , Pengshan Li , Xiaojun Yang , Zhixuan Shen , Feng Sheng , Xiaodong Li , Yunhao Lu , Yi Zheng , Zhu-An Xu

We investigate the charge and spin transport properties of a Weyl semimetal under an external magnetic field using a low-energy effective theory. By performing a chiral transformation, we remove the axial term from the fermionic Lagrangian,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 J. C. Pérez-Pedraza , A. Martín-Ruiz , L. F. Urrutia

We determine the antisymmetric current-current response for a pair of (type I) tilted Weyl cones with opposite chirality. We find that the dynamical chiral magnetic effect depends on the magnitude of the tilt and on the angle between the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-04 E. C. I. van der Wurff , H. T. C. Stoof

We predict that long-range interactions give rise to anisotropy in the electrical resistivity of Weyl metals at low temperatures, where the electrical resistivity becomes much reduced when electric fields are applied to the direction of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-07-24 Yong-Soo Jho , Ki-Seok Kim

Electrons in materials with linear dispersion behave as massless Weyl- or Dirac-quasiparticles, and continue to intrigue physicists due to their close resemblance to elusive ultra-relativistic particles as well as their potential for future…

We show that Weyl semimetals exhibit a mixed axial-torsional anomaly in the presence of axial torsion, a concept exclusive of these materials with no known natural fundamental interpretation in terms of the geometry of spacetime. This…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-13 Yago Ferreiros , Yaron Kedem , Emil J. Bergholtz , Jens H. Bardarson

We investigate the response tensors in planar Hall (or planar thermal Hall) configurations such that a three-dimensional Weyl or multi-Weyl semimetal is subjected to the influence of an electric field $\mathbf E $ (or temperature gradient…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-27 Rahul Ghosh , Ipsita Mandal

We propose a mechanism to directly measure the chiral anomaly in disorder Weyl semimetals (WSMs) by the Kondo effect. We find that in a magnetic and electric field driven WSM, the locations of the Kondo peaks can be modulated by the chiral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Yan-Yan Yang , Ming-Xun Deng , Hou-Jian Duan , Wei Luo , Rui-Qiang Wang