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Weyl semimetal is a recently discovered state of quantum matter, which generally possesses tilted energy dispersion. Here, we investigate the electron tunneling through a Weyl semimetal p-n-p junction. The angular dependence of electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Can Yesilyurt , Seng Ghee Tan , Gengchiau Liang , Shengyuan A. Yang , Mansoor B. A. Jalil

We define the notion of Weyl anomalies, measuring the violation of local scale invariance, in interacting quantum field theory on curved spacetimes in the framework of locally covariant field theory. We discuss some general properties of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-13 Markus B. Fröb , Jochen Zahn

We consider the minimal coupling of a thin film Dirac semimetal Hamiltonian to a generic spin-texture. A simple unitary transformation gauges away the spatial dependence in the exchange term, leading to the generation of effective…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Pritam Chatterjee , Anirudha Menon

Recently, the existence of massless chiral (Weyl) fermions has been postulated in a class of semi-metals with a non-trivial energy dispersion.These materials are now commonly dubbed Weyl semi-metals (WSM).One predicted property of Weyl…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-12 R. D. dos Reis , M. O. Ajeesh , N. Kumar , F. Arnold , C. Shekhar , M. Naumann , M. Schmidt , M. Nicklas , E. Hassinger

We propose a mechanism to generate dissipationless current in time reversal symmetry breaking Weyl semimetals through the anomalous chiral magnetic effect (ACME). The ACME current is induced by chiral imbalance and flows along the direction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-21 Long Liang

A power expansion scheme is set up to determine the Wigner function that satisfies the quantum kinetic equation for spin-1/2 charged fermions in a background electromagnetic field. Vector and axial-vector current induced by magnetic field…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-12-27 Jian-Hua Gao , Zuo-Tang Liang , Shi Pu , Qun Wang , Xin-Nian Wang

We consider the role of quantum effects, mainly, Weyl anomaly in modifying FLRW model singular behavior at early times. Weyl anomaly corrections to FLRW models have been considered in the past, here we reconsider this model and show the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-13 Adel Awad

An exotic anomalous plasmon mode is found in strained Weyl semimetals utilizing the topological Landau Fermi liquid and chiral kinetic theories, in which quasiparticle interactions are modeled by long-range Coulomb and residual short-range…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-23 Shiva Heidari , Dimitrie Culcer , Reza Asgari

We show that a conformal anomaly in Weyl/Dirac semimetals generates a bulk electric current perpendicular to a temperature gradient and the direction of a background magnetic field. The associated conductivity of this novel contribution to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-05-17 M. N. Chernodub , A. Cortijo , M. A. H. Vozmediano

We discuss the type of the general macroscopic parity-violating effects, when there is the current along the vortex, which is concentrated in the vortex core. We consider vortices in superfluids, which contain the Weyl points. In the vortex…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-04-05 G. E. Volovik

We present a theory of the anomalous Hall effect (AHE) in a doped Weyl semimetal, or Weyl metal, including both intrinsic and extrinsic (impurity scattering) contributions. We demonstrate that a Weyl metal is distinguished from an ordinary…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-05 A. A. Burkov

We study the effect of long-ranged interactions on Weyl semimetals. Such interactions can give rise to unpaired Weyl nodes, which we demonstrate by explicitly constructing a system with just a single node - a situation that is fundamentally…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-02-06 Tobias Meng , Jan Carl Budich

Based on the supersymmetric quantum mechanical approach, we have systematically studied both the $U\left(1\right)$ gauge anomaly and the diffeomorphism anomaly in Weyl systems with torsion, curvature and external electromagnetic fields.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-11 Ze-Min Huang , Bo Han

Ferromagnetic Weyl semi-metals exhibit an anomalous Hall effect, a consequence of their topological properties. In the non-interacting case, the derivative of the orbital magnetization with respect to chemical potential is proportional to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-04-05 S. Acheche , R. Nourafkan , A. -M. S. Tremblay

We begin this review with an introduction and a discussion of Weyl fermions as emergent particles in condensed matter systems, and explain how high energy phenomena like the chiral anomaly can be seen in low energy experiments. We then…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Sumathi Rao

In this paper, the nonlinear interaction of Weyl semimetal (WSM) with a strong driving electromagnetic wave-field is investigated. In the scope of the structure-gauge invariant low-energy nonlinear electrodynamic theory, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 H. K. Avetissian , V. N. Avetisyan , B. R. Avchyan , G. F. Mkrtchian

Constructing an effective field theory in terms of doped magnetic impurities (described by an O(3) vector model with a random mass term), itinerant electrons of spin-orbit coupled semiconductors (given by a Dirac theory with a relatively…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-11-28 Kyoung-Min Kim , Jinsu Kim , Soo-Whan Kim , Myung-Hwa Jung , Ki-Seok Kim

Recent advances in the study of nodal Weyl fermions (WFs), quasi-relativistic massless particles, constitute a novel realm of quantum many-body phenomena. The Coulomb interaction in such systems, having a zero density of states at the Fermi…

The electron-nuclear hyperfine interaction shows up in a variety of phenomena including e.g. NMR studies of correlated states and spin decoherence effects in quantum dots. Here we focus on the hyperfine coupling and the NMR spin relaxation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-28 Zoltán Okvátovity , Ferenc Simon , Balázs Dóra

Weyl semimetals (WSM) are a new class of topological materials that exhibit a bulk Hall effect due to time-reversal symmetry breaking, as well as a chiral magnetic effect due to inversion symmetry breaking. These unusual electromagnetic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-01 A. Martín-Ruiz , M. Cambiaso , L. F. Urrutia