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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…

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We study quantum transport phenomena induced by anisotropic Lifshitz scale anomaly in a boundary Lifshitz field theory (BLFT) coupled to an external electromagnetic background. In this context, we obtain the anisotropic scale anomaly in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-09 Chong-Sun Chu , Himanshu Parihar

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

In this paper we analyze the vacuum bosonic current and polarization induced by a magnetic flux running along a higher dimensional cosmic string in the presence of a flat boundary orthogonal to the string. In our analysis we assume that the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-04 E. A. F. Bragança , E. R. Bezerra de Mello

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

We elaborate the quasiclassical approach to obtain the modified chiral magnetic effect in the case when massless charged fermions interact with electromagnetic fields and the background matter by the electroweak forces. The derivation of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-03-16 Maxim Dvornikov , Victor B. Semikoz

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

Quantum polarization effects associated with the conformal anomaly in a static magnetic field background may generate a transverse electric current in the vacuum. The current may be produced either in an unbounded curved spacetime or in a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-01-09 M. N. Chernodub , V. A. Goy , A. V. Molochkov

The scale (conformal) anomaly can generate an electric current near the boundary of a system in the presence of a static magnetic field. The magnitude of this magnetization current, produced at zero temperature and in the absence of matter,…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-08-29 M. N. Chernodub , V. A. Goy , A. V. Molochkov

Collective modes provide direct fingerprints of quantum matter. We predict a previously unidentified hybrid bulk electromagnetic mode in Weyl semimetals arising from the interplay between the chiral anomaly and the orientation of its…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Subrahmanyam D , Suhas Gangadharaiah , E. G. Mishchenko

Quantum anomalies give rise to novel transport phenomena, including the generation of a current in a relativistic fluid due to the presence of magnetic field or vorticity. We present an exclusive and direct computation of the chiral anomaly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-04 Rémy Larue , Jérémie Quevillon , Diego Saviot

Weyl semimetals are three-dimensional crystalline systems where pairs of bands touch at points in momentum space, termed Weyl nodes, that are characterized by a definite topological charge: the chirality. Consequently, they exhibit the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-10-05 S. A. Parameswaran , T. Grover , D. A. Abanin , D. A. Pesin , A. Vishwanath

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

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

Fermi condensation is usually a phenomena of strongly correlated system. In this letter, we point out a novel mechanism for condensation of Dirac fermions due to Weyl anomaly. The condensation has its physical origin in the nontrivial…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-28 Chong-Sun Chu , Rong-Xin Miao

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

The chiral anomaly is the predicted break down of chiral symmetry in a Weyl semimetal with monopoles of opposite chirality when an electric field parallel to a magnetic field is applied. It occurs because of charge pumping from a positive…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-06-09 Dung Vu , Wenjuan Zhang , Cüneyt Şahin , Michael E. Flatté , Nandini Trivedi , Joseph P. Heremans

We compute the magneto-conductance of a short junction made out of a Weyl semi-metal. We show that it displays quantum oscillations at low magnetic field and low temperature, before reaching a universal high-field regime where it increases…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-20 Thibaud Louvet , Manuel Houzet , David Carpentier

Quantum field theory predicts Weyl semimetals to possess a peculiar response of the longitudinal current density to the application of a DC magnetic field. Such a response function has been shown to be at odds with a general result showing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-05 Yahya Alavirad , Jay D. Sau

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