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Using a description of defects in solids in terms of three-dimensional gravity, we study the propagation of electrons in the background of disclinations and screw dislocations. We study the situations where there are bound states that are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 A. P. Balachandran , V. John , Arshad Momen , F. Moraes

The chiral anomaly may be realized in condensed matter systems with pairs of Weyl points. Here we show that the chiral anomaly can be realized in diverse noncentrosymmetric systems even without Weyl point pairs when spin-orbit coupling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-25 Suik Cheon , Gil Young Cho , Ki-Seok Kim , Hyun-Woo Lee

Chiral fermionic quasiparticles emerge in certain quantum condensed matter systems such as Weyl semimetals, topological insulators, and spin-orbit coupled noncentrosymmetric metals. Here, a comprehensive theory of the chiral anomaly-induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-06 Azaz Ahmad , Gautham Varma K. , Gargee Sharma

Starting with a description of the motivation underlying the analysis presented in this paper and a brief survey of the chiral anomaly, I proceed to review some basic elements of the theory of the quantum Hall effect in 2D incompressible…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Juerg Froehlich

Magnetotransport provides key experimental signatures in Weyl semimetals. The longitudinal magnetoresistance is linked to the chiral anomaly and the transversal magnetoresistance to the dominant charge relaxation mechanism. Axial magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-20 Jan Behrends , Roni Ilan , Jens H. Bardarson

From a direct calculation of the anomalous Hall conductivity and an effective electromagnetic action obtained via Fujikawa's chiral rotation technique, we conclude that an axionic field theory with a non-quantized coefficient describes the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-17 Pallab Goswami , Sumanta Tewari

We show that the scale (conformal) anomaly in field theories leads to new anomalous transport effects that emerge in an external electromagnetic field in an inhomogeneous gravitational background. In inflating geometry the QED scale anomaly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-10-07 M. N. Chernodub

In third-order nonlinear transport, a voltage can be measured in response to the cube of a driving current as a result of the quantum geometric effects, which has attracted tremendous attention. However, in realistic materials where…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-29 Zhen-Hao Gong , Zhi-Hao Wei , Hai-Zhou Lu , X. C. Xie

Many-body systems with chiral fermions can exhibit novel transport phenomena that violate parity and time reversal symmetries, such as the chiral magnetic effect, the anomalous Hall effect, and the anomalous generation of charge. Based on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-24 Zebin Qiu , Gaoqing Cao , Xu-Guang Huang

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

The emergence of chiral anomaly entails various fascinating phenomena such as anomalous quantum Hall effect and chiral magnetic effect in different branches of (non-)Hermitian physics. While in the single-particle picture, anomalous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-19 Sharareh Sayyad

We present holographic computations of the time-dependent chiral magnetic conductivity in the framework of gauge/gravity correspondence. Chiral magnetic effect is a phenomenon where an electromagnetic current parallel to an applied magnetic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-14 Ho-Ung Yee

We have studied a massive U(1) gauge holographic model with pure gauge and mixed gauge-gravitational Chern-Simons terms. The full backreaction of the gauge field on the metric tensor has been considered in order to explore the vortical and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-26 Nishal Rai , Eugenio Megias

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

In Weyl semimetals subjected to torsion, there are two different kinds of chirality: i) the (coordinate-space) shape of the twisted crystal is chiral, and ii) the momentum space contains chiral quasi-particles. Here we construct a general…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-25 Lan-Lan Gao , Sahal Kaushik , Dmitri E. Kharzeev , Evan John Philip

Taking the non-collinear antiferromagnetic hexagonal Heusler compound Mn$_3$Ge as a reference system, the contributions to linear response phenomena arising solely from the chiral coplanar and non-coplanar spin configurations are…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-01-27 Sebastian Wimmer , Sergiy Mankovsky , Hubert Ebert

In a fluid with vorticity and acceleration, an axial current arises in the third order of gradient expansion, called the kinematical vortical effect (KVE). While existing in the absence of gravitational fields, it is nevertheless associated…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-05 Georgy Yu. Prokhorov , Oleg V. Teryaev , Valentin I. Zakharov

In this study, we explore a massive (U(1)) gauge holographic model with pure gauge and mixed gauge-gravitational Chern-Simons terms. By considering the full backreaction of the gauge field on the metric tensor, we explore the vortical and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-06-04 Nishal Rai , Eugenio Megias

Nonlinear transport phenomena offer an exciting probe into the band geometry and symmetry properties of a system. While most studies on nonlinear transport have looked at second-order nonreciprocal responses in noncentrosymmetric systems,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-04 Debottam Mandal , Sanjay Sarkar , Kamal Das , Amit Agarwal

Generally, quantum field theories can be thought as deformations away from conformal field theories. In this article, with a simple bottom up model assumed to possess a holographic description, we study a putative large N quantum field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-01 Avik Banerjee , Arnab Kundu , Augniva Ray