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We present a microscopic theory of diffusive magnetotransport in Weyl metals and clarify its relation to chiral anomaly. We derive coupled diffusion equations for the total and axial charge densities and show that chiral anomaly manifests…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-17 A. A. Burkov

We consider the chiral anomaly for systems with a wide class of Hermitian Dirac operators ${Q}$ in 4D Euclidean spacetime. We suppose that $ Q$ is not necessarily linear in derivatives and also that it contains a coordinate inhomogeneity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-26 Praveen D. Xavier , M. A. Zubkov

By making use of the Kubo formula, we calculate the conductivity of Dirac and Weyl semimetals in a magnetic field. We find that the longitudinal (along the direction of the magnetic field) magnetoresistivity is negative at sufficiently…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-25 E. V. Gorbar , V. A. Miransky , I. A. Shovkovy

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

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

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

In the presence of parallel electric and magnetic fields, the violation of separate number conservation laws for the three dimensional left and right handed Weyl fermions is known as the chiral anomaly. The recent discovery of Weyl and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-20 Gargee Sharma , Pallab Goswami , Sumanta Tewari

We apply the Wigner-function approach and chiral kinetic theory to investigate the angular momentum and polarization of chiral fluids composed of Weyl fermions with background electric/magnetic fields and vorticity. It is found that the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-11-07 Di-Lun Yang

Weyl semimetals are predicted to realize the three-dimensional axial anomaly first discussed in particle physics. The anomaly leads to unusual transport phenomena such as the chiral magnetic effect in which an applied magnetic field induces…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-23 Edwin Barnes , J. J. Heremans , Djordje Minic

We present a theory of magnetotransport phenomena related to the chiral anomaly in Weyl semimetals. We show that conductivity, thermal conductivity, thermoelectric and the sound absorption coefficients exhibit strong and anisotropic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-10 B. Z. Spivak , A. V. Andreev

In disordered Weyl semimetals, mechanisms of topological origin lead to the protection against Anderson localization, and at the same time to different types of transverse electromagnetic response -- the anomalous Hall, and chiral magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-01 Alexander Altland , Dmitry Bagrets

Weyl semimetals host relativistic chiral quasiparticles, which display quantum anomalies in the presence of external electromagnetic fields. Here, we study the manifestations of chiral anomalies in the longitudinal and planar…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-06 Kamal Das , Sahil Kumar Singh , Amit Agarwal

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

We show that the Weyl (trace) anomaly gives rise to a new non-dissipative vector current in accelerated relativistic fluids. The anomaly uniquely fixes the second-order transport coefficient governing the coupling between the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-28 Shi-Zheng Yang , Jian-Hua Gao , Zuo-Tang Liang , Georgy Yu. Prokhorov , Shi Pu , Oleg V. Teryaev , Valentin I. Zakharov

We revisit the chiral anomaly in the quantum kinetic theory in the Wigner function formalism under the background field approximation. Our results show that the chiral anomaly is actually from the Dirac sea or the vacuum contribution in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-27 Jian-Hua Gao , Zuo-Tang Liang , Qun Wang

We investigate novel transport phenomena in a chiral fluid originated from an interplay between a vorticity and strong magnetic field, which induces a redistribution of vector charges in the system and an axial current along the magnetic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-10-12 Koichi Hattori , Yi Yin

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 emergent Weyl modes with the broken time-reversal symmetry or inversion symmetry provide large Berry curvature and chirality to carriers, offering the realistic platforms to explore topology of electrons in three-dimensional systems.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-10 Jingyuan Zhong , Jianfeng Wang , Ming Yang , Jie Liu , Zhizhen Ren , Anping Huang , Zhixiang Shi , Zengwei Zhu , Yan Shi , Weichang Hao , Jincheng Zhuang , Yi Du

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

Weyl semimetals are a three dimensional gapless topological phase in which bands intersect at arbitrary points -- the Weyl nodes -- in the Brillouin zone. These points carry a topological quantum number known as the \emph{chirality} and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-05 Pavan Hosur , Xiao-Liang Qi