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We argue that strain applied to a time-reversal and inversion breaking Weyl semi-metal in a magnetic field can induce an electric current via the chiral magnetic effect. A tight binding model is used to show that strain generically changes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-28 Alberto Cortijo , Dmitri Kharzeev , Karl Landsteiner , María A. H. Vozmediano

Solids with topologically robust electronic states exhibit unusual electronic and optical transport properties that do not exist in other materials. A particularly interesting example is chiral charge pumping, the so-called chiral anomaly,…

Magnetotransport and magneto-optics experiments offer a very powerful probe for studying the physical properties of materials. Here, we investigate the second-order nonlinear magnetoconductivity of tilted type-I Weyl and multi-Weyl…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 Sunit Das , Kamal Das , Amit Agarwal

Topological materials with large spin-orbit coupling and immunity to disorder-induced symmetry breaking show great promise for efficiently converting charge to spin. Here, we report that long-range disordered sputtered WTex thin films…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-21 Xiang Li , Peng Li , Vincent D. -H. Hou , Mahendra DC , Chih-Hung Nien , Fen Xue , Di Yi , Chong Bi , Chien-Min Lee , Shy-Jay Lin , Wilman Tsai , Yuri Suzuki , Shan X. Wang

We study the transport properties and superconducting proximity effect in NSN junctions formed by a time-reversal symmetry broken Weyl semimetal (WSM) in proximity to an $s$-wave superconductor. We find that the differential conductance and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-07-02 Daniel Breunig , Song-Bo Zhang , Martin Stehno , Björn Trauzettel

Chiral anomaly (CA), a hallmark of Weyl fermions, has emerged as a cornerstone of condensed matter physics following the discovery of Weyl semimetals. While the anomaly in pseudospin-1/2 (Weyl) systems is well-established, its extension to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-17 Azaz Ahmad , Gargee Sharma

The Weyl semimetal (WSM) is a newly proposed quantum state of matter. It has Weyl nodes in bulk excitations and Fermi arcs surface states. We study the effects of disorder and localization in WSMs and find three exotic phase transitions.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-16 Chui-Zhen Chen , Juntao Song , Hua Jiang , Qing-feng Sun , Ziqiang Wang , X. C. Xie

NbP is a recently realized Weyl semimetal (WSM), hosting Weyl points through which conduction and valence bands cross linearly in the bulk and exotic Fermi arcs appear. However, the most intriguing transport phenomenon of a WSM, the chiral…

The chiral anomaly, a hallmark of chiral spin-1/2 Weyl fermions, is an imbalance between left- and right-moving particles that underpins both high and low energy phenomena, including particle decay and negative longitudinal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-07 F. Balduini , A. Molinari , L. Rocchino , V. Hasse , C. Felser , M. Sousa , C. Zota , H. Schmid , A. G. Grushin , B. Gotsmann

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

Weyl semimetals (WSM) exhibit chiral anomaly in their magnetotransport due to broken conservation laws. Here, we analyze the magnetotransport of WSM in the presence of the time-reversal symmetry-breaking tilt parameter. The analytical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-02 Anirban Kundu , Hyunsoo Yang , M. B. A. Jalil

Discovered in high-energy physics, the chiral anomaly has recently made way to materials science by virtue of Weyl semimetals (WSM). Thus far, the main efforts to probe the chiral anomaly in WSM have concentrated on electronic phenomena.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-09-14 Pierre Rinkel , Pedro L. S. Lopes , Ion Garate

Recent studies suggest that the nonlinear transport properties in Weyl semimetal may be a measurable consequence of its chiral anomaly. Nonlinear responses in transport are estimated to be substantial, because in real materials such as TaAs…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-16 Min Ju Park , Suik Cheon , Hyun-Woo Lee

The spin-to-charge current interconversion in bilayers composed of ferromagnetic and nonmagnetic layers with strong spin-orbit coupling has garnered considerable attention due to its exceptional potential in advancing spintronics devices…

We present a field theoretical model of anomalous transport in Weyl semi-metals. We calculate the Chiral Magnetic and Chiral Vortical Effect in the electric, axial (valley) and energy current. Our findings coincide with the results of a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-02-26 Karl Landsteiner

Multi-Weyl semimetals are a kind of topological phase of matter with discrete Weyl nodes characterized by multiple monopole charges, in which the chiral anomaly, the anomalous nonconservation of an axial current, occurs in the presence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-09 Ze-Min Huang , Jianhui Zhou , Shun-Qing Shen

Weyl semimetals (WSMs) are topological quantum states wherein the electronic bands linearly disperse around pairs of nodes, the Weyl points, of fixed (left or right) chirality. The recent discovery of WSM materials triggered an experimental…

The generation and control of spin currents are crucial for advancing next-generation spintronic technologies. These technologies depend on materials capable of efficiently sourcing and interconverting spin and charge currents, while…

The anomalous Hall effect (AHE), typically observed in ferromagnetic (FM) metals with broken time-reversal symmetry, depends on electronic and magnetic properties. In Co$_{3}$Sn$_{2-x}$In$_{x}$S$_{2}$, a giant AHE has been attributed to…

A Weyl semimetal (WSM)\ is a three-dimensional topological phase of matter where pairs of nondegenerate bands cross at isolated points in the Brillouin zone called Weyl nodes. Near these points, the electronic dispersion is gapless and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-20 Samuel Vadnais , Rene Cote