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We propose a non-dissipative transport effect and vortical response in Weyl semimetals in the presence of spatial inhomogeneities, namely a spatially varying tilt of the Weyl cones. We show that when the spectrum is anisotropic and tilted…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-28 Saber Rostamzadeh , Sevval Tasdemir , Mustafa Sarisaman , S. A. Jafari , Mark-Oliver Goerbig

We consider the properties of the type II Weyl semimetals at low temperatures basing on the particular tight - binding model. In the presence of electric field directed along the line connecting the Weyl points of opposite chirality the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 M. A. Zubkov , M. Lewkowicz

We investigate the 3D quantum Hall effect in Weyl semimetals and elucidate a global picture of the edge states. The edge states hosting 3D quantum Hall effect are combinations of Fermi arcs and chiral bulk Landau levels parallel to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-17 Hailong Li , Haiwen Liu , Hua Jiang , X. C. Xie

The phenomenon of nonlinear transport has attracted tremendous interest within the condensed matter community. We present a theoretical framework for nonlinear transport based on the nonequilibrium retarded Green's function, and examine the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-02-28 Mei-Wei Hu , Zhuo-Yan Fang , Hou-Jian Duan , Mou Yang , Ming-Xun Deng , Rui-Qiang Wang

Weyl semimetals possess low energy excitations which act as monopoles of Berry curvature in momentum space. These emergent monopoles are at the heart of the extensive novel transport properties that Weyl semimetals exhibit. The singular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-20 Timothy M. McCormick , Robert C. McKay , Nandini Trivedi

We propose a way to observe the chiral magnetic effect in non-centrosymmetric Weyl semimetals under the action of strong electric field, via the non-linear part of their I-V characteristic that is odd in the external magnetic field, or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 S. Nandy , D. A. Pesin

Observation of Weyl and Dirac Fermions in condensed matter systems is one of the most important discoveries. Among the very few available tools to characterize Weyl semimetals through electrical transport, negative magnetoresistance is most…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-27 Nitesh Kumar , Satya N. Guin , Claudia Felser , Chandra Shekhar

Chiral fermionic quasiparticles emerge in certain quantum condensed matter systems such as Weyl semimetals, topological insulators, and spin-orbit coupled noncentrosymmetric metals. Here, a comprehensive theory of the chiral anomaly-induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-06 Azaz Ahmad , Gautham Varma K. , Gargee Sharma

The low-energy quasiparticles of Weyl semimetals are a condensed-matter realization of the Weyl fermions introduced in relativistic field theory. Chiral anomaly, the nonconservation of the chiral charge under parallel electric and magnetic…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-12-29 Pilkwang Kim , Ji Hoon Ryoo , Cheol-Hwan Park

Circularly polarized light fails to generate currents in inversion-symmetric Weyl semimetals with degenerate Weyl nodes. While each node generates current with the direction depending on its chirality, the two currents in the two degenerate…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-07-26 Amar Bharti , Misha Ivanov , Gopal Dixit

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…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-01-30 Gokce Basar , Dmitri E. Kharzeev , Ho-Ung Yee

Chirality, a characteristic handedness that distinguishes 'left' from 'right', cuts widely across all of nature$^1$, from the structure of DNA$^2$ to opposite chirality of particles and antiparticles$^3$. In condensed matter chiral fermions…

The planar Hall effect (PHE), the appearance of an in-plane transverse voltage in the presence of co-planar electric ($\mathbf{E}$) and magnetic ($\mathbf{B}$) fields, occurs in regular Weyl semimetals (WSMs) as one of the fundamental…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-09-23 Suvendu Ghosh , Debabrata Sinha , Snehasish Nandy , A. Taraphder

The spectrum of collective excitations in Weyl materials is studied by using consistent hydrodynamics. The corresponding framework includes the vortical and chiral anomaly effects, as well as the dependence on the separations between the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-06-13 P. O. Sukhachov , E. V. Gorbar , I. A. Shovkovy , V. A. Miransky

The electric and chiral current response to the time- and coordinate-dependent pseudoelectric field $\mathbf{E}_5$ in Weyl semimetals is studied. It is found that $\mathbf{E}_5$ leads to an electric current in the direction perpendicular to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-26 A. A. Herasymchuk , P. O. Sukhachov , E. V. Gorbar

In this letter, we investigate the anomalous Hall effect in dense QCD matter. When the dual chiral density wave which is the spatially modulated chiral condensate appears in the medium, it gives rise to two Weyl points to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-09-26 Toshitaka Tatsumi , Ryo Yoshiike , Kouji Kashiwa

We show how the axial (chiral) anomaly induces a spin torque on the magnetization in magnetic Weyl semimetals. The anomaly produces an imbalance in left- and right-handed chirality carriers when non-orthogonal electric and magnetic fields…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-27 Julia D. Hannukainen , Alberto Cortijo , Jens H. Bardarson , Yago Ferreiros

Weyl semimetals (WSMs) are topological quantum states wherein the electronic bands linearly disperse around pairs of nodes, the Weyl points, of fixed (left or right) chirality. The recent discovery of WSM materials triggered an experimental…

We theoretically study the circularly polarized light-induced Floquet state in line-node semimetals with time-reversal symmetry and inversion symmetry. It is found that the Floquet state can show the photovoltaic anomalous Hall effect when…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-01 Katsuhisa Taguchi , Dong-Hui Xu , Ai Yamakage , K. T. Law

Weyl semimetals are well-known for hosting topologically protected linear band crossings, serving as the analog of the relativistic Weyl Fermions in the condensed matter context. Such analogy persists deeply, allowing the existence of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-15 Yang Gao