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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

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

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

A low-energy model is built to study systems such as Dirac/Weyl semimetals, according to statistical quantum electrodynamics formalism. We report that the introduction of a pseudoscalar, associated to longitudinal photons propagating along…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-28 J. L. Acosta Avalo , H. Pérez Rojas

Torsion can be realized as dislocation in the crystal lattice of material. It is particularly interesting if the material has fermions in the spectrum, such as graphene, topological insulators, Dirac and Weyl semimetals, as it's transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-16 Chong-Sun Chu , Rong-Xin Miao

The chiral magnetic effect is a phenomenon where an electromagnetic current is generated along a magnetic field. Recently, in nonequilibrium systems, negative longitudinal magnetoresistance has been observed experimentally in Dirac/Weyl…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-18 Yohei Ibe , Hiroaki Sumiyoshi

When subjected to parallel electric field $\mathbf E$ and magnetic field $\mathbf B$, Weyl semimetals exhibit the exotic transport property known as the chiral anomaly due to the pumping of electrons between Weyl cones of opposite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-19 Tianyu Liu , Zheng Shi

The consistent chiral kinetic theory accurate to the second order in electromagnetic and pseudoelectromagnetic fields is derived for a relativistic matter with two Weyl fermions. By making use of such a framework, the properties of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-30 E. V. Gorbar , V. A. Miransky , I. A. Shovkovy , P. O. Sukhachov

We predict a nonlinear Hall effect in certain Weyl semimetals with broken inversion symmetry. When the energy dispersions about pairs of Weyl nodes are skewed -- the Weyl cones are "tilted" -- the concerted actions of the anomalous velocity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-19 Rui-Hao Li , Olle G. Heinonen , Anton A. Burkov , Steven S. -L. Zhang

When the right and the left handed Weyl points are separated in energy, they give rise to a non-dissipative charge current along the direction of a uniform applied magnetic field, even in the absence of an external electric field. This…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-13 Pallab Goswami , Sumanta Tewari

Helicons are transverse electromagnetic modes in three-dimensional (3D) electron systems in the presence of a static magnetic field. These modes have been proposed in isotropic or single Weyl semimetals(WSMs) (Francesco M.D. Pellegrino et…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-04 Shiv Kumar Ram , Amit Gupta

Three-dimensional Weyl and Dirac semimetals can support a chiral-symmetry-breaking, fully gapped, charge-density-wave order even for sufficiently weak repulsive electron-electron interactions, when placed in strong magnetic fields. In the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-25 Bitan Roy , Jay D. Sau

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

We study the propagation of an oscillatory electromagnetic field inside a Weyl semimetal. In conventional conductors, the motion of the charge carriers in the skin layer near the surface can be diffusive, ballistic, or hydrodynamic. We show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-16 Paweł Matus , Renato M. A. Dantas , Roderich Moessner , Piotr Surówka

Chiral magnetic effect is a quantum phenomenon that is breaking of chiral symmetry of relativistic Weyl fermions by quantum fluctuation under paralleled electric field E and magnetic field B. Intuitively, Weyl fermions with different…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-05-28 Yang-Yang Lv , Xiao Li , Bin Pang , Y. B. Chen , Shu-Hua Yao , Jian Zhou , Yan-Feng Chen

We study the presence of an external magnetic field, in combination with torsional strain, over the electron-phonon interactions in a type I Weyl semimetal. This particular superposition of field and strain, modeled in the continuum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-03 Fabian Jofre Parra , Daniel A. Bonilla , Enrique Muñoz

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

A novel oscillatory behaviour of the DC conductivity in Weyl semimetals with vacancies has recently been identified, occurring in the absence of external magnetic fields. Here, we argue that this effect has a geometric interpretation in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-09 Giandomenico Palumbo

The extraordinary electronic properties of Dirac materials, the two-dimensional partners of Weyl semimetals, arise from the linear crossings in their band structure. When the dispersion around the Dirac points is tilted, the emergence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-31 M. Milićević , G. Montambaux , T. Ozawa , I. Sagnes , A. Lemaître , L. Le Gratiet , A. Harouri , J. Bloch , A. Amo

We review recent theoretical and experimental developments in magnetic Weyl semimetals, focusing on the electromagnetic responses emerging from the interplay of their electronic band topology and magnetism. We begin by introducing the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-25 Akihiro Ozawa , Yasufumi Araki , Koji Kobayashi , Kentaro Nomura