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In this review we discuss a wide range of topological properties of electron quasiparticles in Dirac and Weyl semimetals. Their nontrivial topology is quantified by a monopole-like Berry curvature in the vicinity of Weyl nodes, as well as…

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Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-24 Cheng-Long Zhang , Bingbing Tong , Zhujun Yuan , Ziquan Lin , Junfeng Wang , Jinglei Zhang , Chuan-Ying Xi , Zhong Wang , Shuang Jia , Chi Zhang

We show how the universal low-energy properties of Weyl semimetals with spatially varying time-reversal (TR) or inversion (I) symmetry breaking are described in terms of chiral fermions experiencing curved-\emph{spacetime} geometry and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 Long Liang , Teemu Ojanen

We argue that strain applied to a time-reversal and inversion breaking Weyl semi-metal in a magnetic field can induce an electric current via the chiral magnetic effect. A tight binding model is used to show that strain generically changes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-28 Alberto Cortijo , Dmitri Kharzeev , Karl Landsteiner , María A. H. Vozmediano

Magnetotransport and magneto-optics experiments offer a very powerful probe for studying the physical properties of materials. Here, we investigate the second-order nonlinear magnetoconductivity of tilted type-I Weyl and multi-Weyl…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 Sunit Das , Kamal Das , Amit Agarwal

Torsional strain in Weyl semimetals excites a unidirectional chiral density wave propagating in the direction of the torsional vector. This gapless excitation, named the chiral sound wave, is generated by a particular realization of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-24 Matteo Baggioli , Maxim N. Chernodub , Karl Landsteiner , Maria A. H. Vozmediano

Weyl fermions are powerful yet simple entities that connect geometry, topology, and physics. While their existence as fundamental particles is still uncertain, growing evidence shows they emerge as quasiparticles in special materials called…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-17 Azaz Ahmad

Weyl particles exhibit chiral transport property under external curved space-time geometry. This effect is called chiral gravitational effect, which plays an important role in quantum field theory. However, the absence of real Weyl…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-07-28 Hongwei Jia , Ruo-Yang Zhang , Wenlong Gao , Shuang Zhang , C. T. Chan

Weyl semimetals are three-dimensional crystalline systems where pairs of bands touch at points in momentum space, termed Weyl nodes, that are characterized by a definite topological charge: the chirality. Consequently, they exhibit the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-10-05 S. A. Parameswaran , T. Grover , D. A. Abanin , D. A. Pesin , A. Vishwanath

Weyl and Dirac semimetals are three dimensional phases of matter with gapless electronic excitations that are protected by topology and symmetry. As three dimensional analogs of graphene, they have generated much recent interest. Deep…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-01-31 N. P. Armitage , E. J. Mele , Ashvin Vishwanath

Weyl nodes come in pairs of opposite chirality. For broken time reversal symmetry (TR) they are displaced in momentum space by $\bf{Q}$ and the anomalous DC Hall conductivity $\sigma_{xy}$ is proportional to $\bf{Q}$ at charge neutrality.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-03-14 S. P. Mukherjee , J. P. Carbotte

In Weyl semimetals with broken inversion and time-reversal symmetries, the Maxwell equations are modified by the presence of the axion terms $\mathbf{b} $ and $b_{0}$ where, in the simplest case of a two-node Weyl semimetal, $% 2\hslash…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-04 René Côté , Rémi N. Duchesne , Gautier D. Duchesne , Olivier Trépanier

We develop a semiclassical theory of sound absorption in Weyl semimetals in magnetic fields. We focus on the contribution to the absorption that stems from the existence of Berry monopoles in the band structure of such materials, or,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-30 Ohad Antebi , D. A. Pesin , A. V. Andreev , Roni Ilan

We suggest the possibility of a linear magnetochiral effect in time reversal breaking Weyl semimetals. Generically the magnetochiral effect consists in a simultaneous linear dependence of the magnetotransport coefficients with the magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 Alberto Cortijo

Weyl fermions can be created in materials with both time reversal and inversion symmetry by applying a magnetic field, as evidenced by recent measurements of anomalous negative magnetoresistance. Here, we do a thorough analysis of the Weyl…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-17 Jennifer Cano , Barry Bradlyn , Zhijun Wang , Max Hirschberger , N. P. Ong , B. A. Bernevig

Topological semimetals, such as the Weyl and Dirac semimetals, represent one of the most active research fields in modern condensed matter physics. The peculiar physical properties of these systems mainly originate from their underlying…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-09 Yu-Ping Lin , Giandomenico Palumbo

We theoretically investigate the Aharonov-Bohm effect in a thick-walled Weyl semimetal (WSM) cylinder subject to an external axial magnetic field. By employing a low-energy effective Hamiltonian, we analytically solve the eigenvalue problem…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 J. C. Pérez-Pedraza , Juan A. Cañas , Daniel A. Bonilla , A. Martín-Ruiz

We show that, as it happens in graphene, elastic deformations couple to the electronic degrees of freedom as pseudo gauge fields in Weyl semimetals. We derive the form of the elastic gauge fields in a tight-binding model hosting Weyl nodes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-16 Alberto Cortijo , Yago Ferreiros , Karl Landsteiner , Maria A. H. Vozmediano

We investigate the reflection properties of electromagnetic/optical waves in isotropic chiral media. When the chiral parameter is strong enough, we show that an unusual \emph{negative reflection} occurs at the interface of the chiral medium…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Chao Zhang , Tie Jun Cui

In condensed matter physics, the term "chiral anomaly" implies the violation of the separate number conservation laws of Weyl fermions of different chiralities in the presence of parallel electric and magnetic fields. One effect of chiral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-12 S. Nandy , Gargee Sharma , A. Taraphder , Sumanta Tewari