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The weak antilocalization (WAL) effect is known as a quantum correction to the classical conductivity, which never appeared in two-dimensional magnets. In this work, we reported the observation of a WAL effect in the van der Waals…

Topological Weyl semimetals can host Weyl nodes with monopole charges in momentum space. How to detect the signature of the monopole charges in quantum transport remains a challenging topic. Here, we reveal the connection between the parity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-27 Xin Dai , Hai-Zhou Lu , Shun-Qing Shen , Hong Yao

We investigate the influence of a time-periodic driving (for example, by shining circularly polarized light) on three-dimensional Weyl and multi-Weyl semimetals, in the planar Hall and planar thermal Hall set-ups. We incorporate the effects…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-13 Shivam Yadav , Serena Fazzini , Ipsita Mandal

Weyl semimetals are topological materials that provide a condensed-matter realization of the chiral anomaly. A positive longitudinal magnetoconductance quadratic in magnetic field has been promoted as a diagnostic for this anomaly. By…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-13 Andy Knoll , Carsten Timm , Tobias Meng

The realization of 100\% polarized topological Weyl fermions in half-metallic ferromagnets is of particular importance for fundamental research and spintronic applications. Here, we theoretically investigate the electronic and topological…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-03-06 Xianyong Ding , Xin Jin , Haoran Wei , Ruixiang Zhu , Xiaoliang Xiao , Xiaozhi Wu , Fangyang Zhan , Rui Wang

We argue that in order to study the magneto-transport in a relativistic Weyl fluid, it is needed to take into account the associated quantum corrections, namely the side-jump effect, at least to second order. To this end, we impose Lorentz…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-28 Navid Abbasi , Farid Taghinavaz , Omid Tavakol

We report the topological electronic structure, magnetic, and magnetotransport properties of a noncentrosymmetric compound GdAlSi. Magnetic susceptibility shows an antiferromagnetic transition at $T_\mathrm{N}$ = 32 K. In-plane isothermal…

We report the observation of negative magnetoresistance in the ferromagnetic semiconductor GaMnAs at low temperatures ($T<3$ K) and low magnetic fields ($0< B <20$ mT). We attribute this effect to weak localization. Observation of weak…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. P. Rokhinson , Y. Lyanda-Geller , Z. Ge , S. Shen , X. Liu , M. Dobrowolska , J. K. Furdyna

Including the effect of the trivial band near Weyl nodes, we evaluate the longitudinal magnetoconductivity (LMC) of Weyl semimetals along the magnetic field direction using the Boltzmann magnetotransport theory, and study its dependence on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-19 Jeonghyeon Suh , Hongki Min

We investigate magnetotransport across an interface between two Weyl semimetals whose Weyl nodes project onto different interface momenta. Such an interface generically hosts Fermi arcs that connect Weyl nodes of identical chirality in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-10 Adam Yanis Chaou , Vatsal Dwivedi , Maxim Breitkreiz

Weyl fermions, which are fermions with definite chiralities, can give rise to anomalous breaking of the symmetry of the physical system which they are a part of. In their (3+1)-dimensional realizations in condensed matter systems, i.e., the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-17 Jimmy A. Hutasoit , Jiadong Zang , Radu Roiban , Chao-Xing Liu

In a recent paper [R. Soto-Garrido and E. Mu\~noz, J. Phys. Condens. Matter 30, 195302 (2018)], we studied the electronic transport properties in Weyl semimetals (WSMs) submitted to the combined effects of torsional mechanical strain and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-07 Enrique Muñoz , Rodrigo Soto-Garrido

We have studied the carrier transport in two topological insulator (TI) Bi$_{2}$Te$_{3}$ microflakes between 0.3 and 10 K and under applied backgate voltages ($V_{\rm BG}$). Logarithmic temperature dependent resistance corrections due to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 Shao-Pin Chiu , Juhn-Jong Lin

Berry curvature in Weyl semimetals results in very intriguing magneto-electric and magneto-thermal transport properties. In this paper, we explore the impact of the tilting of the Weyl nodes, which breaks the time-reversal symmetry, on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-13 Kamal Das , Amit Agarwal

The discovery of nonmagnetic Weyl semimetals (WSMs) in TaAs compounds has triggered lots of efforts in finding its magnetic counterpart. While the direct observation of the Weyl nodes and Fermi arcs in a magnetic candidate through…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-02-26 Run Yang , Tan Zhang , Liqin Zhou , Yaomin Dai , Zhiyu Liao , Hongming Weng , Xianggang Qiu

We study transport in a Weyl semimetal with donor and acceptor impurities. At sufficiently high temperatures transport is dominated by electron-electron interactions, while the low-temperature resistivity comes from the scattering of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-13 Ya. I. Rodionov , S. V. Syzranov

We study electronic and thermoelectric transport in a type I Weyl semimetal nanojunction, with a torsional dislocation defect, in the presence of an external magnetic field parallel to the dislocation axis. The defect is modeled in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-08 Daniel Bonilla , Enrique Muñoz , Rodrigo Soto-Garrido

Thus far, a detection of the Dirac or Weyl fermions in topological semimetals remains often elusive, since in these materials conventional charge carriers exist as well. Here, measuring a field-induced length change of the prototype Weyl…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-09 T. Cichorek , L. Bochenek , J. Juraszek , Yu. V. Sharlai , G. P. Mikitik

Weyl semimetals (WSM) exhibit chiral anomaly in their magnetotransport due to broken conservation laws. Here, we analyze the magnetotransport of WSM in the presence of the time-reversal symmetry-breaking tilt parameter. The analytical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-02 Anirban Kundu , Hyunsoo Yang , M. B. A. Jalil

We report electron transport studies in an encapsulated few-layer WTe$_2$ at low temperatures and high magnetic fields. The magnetoconductance reveals a temperature-induced crossover between weak antilocalization (WAL) and weak localization…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-10-07 Xurui Zhang , John M. Woods , Judy J. Cha , Xiaoyan Shi