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It has been suggested recently, based on subtle field-theoretical considerations, that the electromagnetic response of Weyl semimetals and the closely related Weyl insulators can be characterized by an axion term E.B with space and time…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-11 M. M. Vazifeh , M. Franz

We present an overview of our recent work on transport phenomena in Weyl metals, which may be connected to their nontrivial topological properties, particularly to chiral anomaly. We argue that there are two basic phenomena, which are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 A. A. Burkov

Weyl semimetals realize massless relativistic fermions with two Weyl nodes separated in energy and momentum space, whose low-energy physics is described by Dirac fermions with an axial gauge constant. Here, we study their electromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-10 Tatsuya Amitani , Yusuke Nishida

Magneto conductivities in Weyl semimetals (WSM) in presence of small fields are studied using quasi-classical Boltzmann transport equations (BTE). Following such formalism here we consider irradiation via circularly polarized light on a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-10-11 Rounak Sen , Satyaki Kar

The Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) is a phenomenon by which an electric current develops in the direction of a magnetic field applied to a material. Recent theoretical research suggests that the CME can be observed in thermal equilibrium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-18 Artem Ivashko , Vadim Cheianov

The Weyl semimetal is characterized by three-dimensional linear band touching points called Weyl nodes. These nodes come in pairs with opposite chiralities. We show that the coupling of circularly polarized photons with these chiral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-19 Ching-Kit Chan , Patrick A. Lee , Kenneth S. Burch , Jung Hoon Han , Ying Ran

We consider the properties of electric circuits involving Weyl semimetals. The existence of the anomaly-induced chiral magnetic current in a Weyl semimetal subjected to magnetic field causes an interesting and unusual behavior of such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-18 Dmitri E. Kharzeev , Ho-Ung Yee

We experimentally investigate a non-linear Hall effect for three-dimensional WTe$_2$ and Cd$_3$As$_2$ single crystals, representing Weyl and Dirac semimetals, respectively. We observe finite second-harmonic Hall voltage, which depends…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-07 O. O. Shvetsov , V. D. Esin , A. V. Timonina , N. N. Kolesnikov , E. V. Deviatov

A developing frontier in condensed matter physics is the emergence of novel electromagnetic responses, such as topological and anomalous Hall effect (AHE), in ferromagnetic Weyl semimetals (FM-WSMs). Candidates of FM-WSM are limited to…

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 manifestation of chiral anomaly in Weyl semimetals typically relies on the observation of longitudinal magnetoconductance (LMC) along with the planar Hall effect, with a specific magnetic field and angle dependence. Here we solve the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-19 Gargee Sharma , S. Nandy , Sumanta Tewari

Parallel electric and magnetic fields applied to Weyl semimetals pump axial charge via the axial anomaly until balanced by intervalley relaxation. The resulting nonequilibrium steady state exhibits the chiral magnetic effect as well as the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-01 Yusuke Nishida

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

Chirality is a ubiquitous concept in modern science, from particle physics to biology. In quantum physics, chirality of fermions is linked to topology of gauge fields by the chiral anomaly. While the chiral anomaly is usually associated…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-26 Dmitri E. Kharzeev

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

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

The quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) and magnetic Weyl semimetals (WSMs) are topological states induced by intrinsic magnetic moments and spin-orbit coupling. Their similarity suggests the possibility of achieving the QAHE by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-03-26 Lukas Muechler , Enke Liu , Jacob Gayles , Qiunan Xu , Claudia Felser , Yan Sun

We report on the mean-field study of the Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) in static magnetic fields within a simple model of a parity-breaking Weyl semimetal given by the lattice Wilson-Dirac Hamiltonian with constant chiral chemical potential.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-12-07 P. V. Buividovich , M. Puhr , S. N. Valgushev

We compute the chiral magnetic effect (CME) in multi-Weyl semimetals (multi-WSMs) based on the chiral kinetic theory. Multi-WSMs are WSMs with multiple monopole charges that have nonlinear and anisotropic dispersion relations near Weyl…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-16 Tomoya Hayata , Yuta Kikuchi , Yuya Tanizaki

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