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Typical Weyl semimetals host chiral surface states and hence show an anomalous Hall response. Although a Weyl semimetal phase is known to be robust against weak disorder, the influence of disorder on chiral states is not fully clarified so…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 Yositake Takane

Weyl semimetals are a three dimensional gapless topological phase in which bands intersect at arbitrary points -- the Weyl nodes -- in the Brillouin zone. These points carry a topological quantum number known as the \emph{chirality} and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-05 Pavan Hosur , Xiao-Liang Qi

The holographic Weyl semimetal is a model of a strongly coupled topological semi-metal. A topological quantum phase transition separates a topological phase with non-vanishing anomalous Hall conductivity from a trivial state. We investigate…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-05 Christian Copetti , Jorge Fernández-Pendás , Karl Landsteiner

We show that Weyl semimetals with broken time-reversal symmetry can host chiral electromag- netic waves. The magnetization that results in a momentum space separation of a pair of opposite chirality Weyl nodes is also responsible for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-05 A. A. Zyuzin , V. A. Zyuzin

In disordered Weyl semimetals, mechanisms of topological origin lead to the protection against Anderson localization, and at the same time to different types of transverse electromagnetic response -- the anomalous Hall, and chiral magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-01 Alexander Altland , Dmitry Bagrets

Recently, time-reversal symmetry broken magnetic Weyl semimetals (WSMs) have attracted extensive attention and have provided an intriguing platform for exploring fundamental physical phenomena. The study of chromium telluride-based systems…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-11-26 Anumita Bose , Shubham Purwar , Setti Thirupathaiah , Awadhesh Narayan

Recently, a new type of Weyl semimetal called type-II Weyl semimetal has been proposed. Unlike the usual (type-I) Weyl semimetal, which has a point-like Fermi surface, this new type of Weyl semimetal has a tilted conical spectrum around the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-21 A. A. Zyuzin , Rakesh P. Tiwari

The emergent Weyl modes with the broken time-reversal symmetry or inversion symmetry provide large Berry curvature and chirality to carriers, offering the realistic platforms to explore topology of electrons in three-dimensional systems.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-10 Jingyuan Zhong , Jianfeng Wang , Ming Yang , Jie Liu , Zhizhen Ren , Anping Huang , Zhixiang Shi , Zengwei Zhu , Yan Shi , Weichang Hao , Jincheng Zhuang , Yi Du

The anomalous velocity term in the semiclassical model of a Bloch electron deviates the trajectory from the conventional one. When the Berry curvature (alias noncommutative parameter) is a monopole in momentum space as found recently in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-05 P. A. Horvathy

The recent discovery of the quantum nonlinear Hall effect has revived the field of nonlinear transport. Here, we predict magnetic field-induced nonlinear Hall effect in time-reversal symmetric Weyl semimetal. We show that the interplay of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-13 Debottam Mandal , Kamal Das , Amit Agarwal

We study the ac anomalous Hall conductivity $\sigma_{xy}(\omega)$ of a Weyl semimetal with broken time-reversal symmetry. Even in the absence of free carriers these materials exhibit a "universal" anomalous Hall response determined solely…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-04 J. F. Steiner , A. V. Andreev , D. A. Pesin

In this paper, the chiral Hall effect of strained Weyl semimetals without any external magnetic field is proposed. Electron-phonon coupling emerges in the low-energy fermionic sector through a pseudogauge potential. We show that, by using…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-04-22 Shiva Heidari , Reza Asgari

Under broken time reversal symmetry such as in the presence of external magnetic field or internal magnetization, a transverse voltage can be established in materials perpendicular to both longitudinal current and applied magnetic field,…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-02-04 Hua Wang , Xiaofeng Qian

Quantum anomalies in Weyl semimetal (for either ${\bf E}\cdot{\bf B} \neq 0$ or ${\bf \nabla}T\cdot{\bf B} \neq 0$) leads to chiral charge and energy pumping between the opposite chirality nodes. This results in chiral charge and energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-05 Kamal Das , Amit Agarwal

Even if Weyl semimetals are characterized by quasiparticles with well-defined chirality, exploiting this experimentally is severely hampered by Weyl lattice-fermions coming in pairs with opposite chirality, typically causing the net…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-28 Rajyavardhan Ray , Banasree Sadhukhan , Manuel Richter , Jorge I. Facio , Jeroen van den Brink

We investigate linear and nonlinear transverse planar transport phenomena (viz. linear and nonlinear Hall and Nernst coefficients) induced by chiral anomaly in three-dimensional spin-orbit coupled metallic systems. Unlike Weyl semimetals,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-11 Rishi G. Gopalakrishnan , Binayyak B. Roy , Gargee Sharma , Sumanta Tewari

As they do not rely on the presence of any crystal symmetry, Weyl nodes are robust topological features of an electronic structure that can occur at any momentum and energy. Acting as sinks and sources of Berry curvature, Weyl nodes have…

The chiral vortical effect is a chiral anomaly induced transport phenomenon characterized by an axial current in a uniformly rotating chiral fluid. It is well-understood for Weyl fermions in high energy physics, but its realization in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-28 Swadeepan Nanda , Pavan Hosur

In Weyl semimetals the application of parallel electric and magnetic fields leads to valley polarization -- an occupation disbalance of valleys of opposite chirality -- a direct consequence of the chiral anomaly. In this work, we present…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-02 Pablo M. Perez-Piskunow , Nicandro Bovenzi , Anton R. Akhmerov , Maxim Breitkreiz

In the presence of time reversal symmetry, a non-linear Hall effect can occur in systems without an inversion symmetry. One of the prominent candidates for detection of such Hall signals are Weyl semimetals. In this article, we investigate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-22 Saswata Roy , Awadhesh Narayan