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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

We provide a review of recent experimental results on the chiral anomaly in Dirac/Weyl semimetals. After a brief introduction, we trace the steps leading to the prediction of materials that feature protected 3D bulk Dirac nodes. The chiral…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-10-29 N. P. Ong , Sihang Liang

Recently a large negative longitudinal (parallel to the magnetic field) magnetoresistance was observed in Weyl and Dirac semimetals. It is believed to be related to the chiral anomaly associated with topological electron band structure of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 A. V. Andreev , B. Z. Spivak

We show that Weyl semimetals exhibit a mixed axial-torsional anomaly in the presence of axial torsion, a concept exclusive of these materials with no known natural fundamental interpretation in terms of the geometry of spacetime. This…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-13 Yago Ferreiros , Yaron Kedem , Emil J. Bergholtz , Jens H. Bardarson

We investigate the role of the chiral anomaly in hydrodynamic and crossover regimes of transport in a Weyl or Dirac semimetal film. We show that the magnetic-field-dependent part of the electric conductivity in the direction of the magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-25 P. O. Sukhachov , Björn Trauzettel

Weyl semimetals are a three dimensional topological phase of matter with linearly dispersed Weyl points which appear in pairs and carry opposite chirality. The separation of paired Weyl points allows charge transfer between them in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-08 Salah Uddin , Wenye Duan , Jun Wang , Zhongshui Ma , Jun-Feng Liu

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…

Chiral anomaly or Adler-Bell-Jackiw anomaly in Weyl semimetals (WSMs) has a significant impact on the electron transport behaviors, leading to remarkable longitudinal or planar electrical and thermoelectric transport phenomena in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-29 Chuanchang Zeng , Snehasish Nandy , Sumanta Tewari

We consider effects of spatial dispersion in noncentrosymmetric time-reversal invariant Weyl metals in the presence of a static magnetic field. In particular, we study currents that are linear in both the spatial derivatives of an applied…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-12 S. Nandy , D. A. Pesin

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

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

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

Multi-band touchings together with the emergence of fermions exhibiting linear dispersions have recently been predicted and realized in various materials. We first investigate the Adler-Bell-Jackiw chiral anomaly in these multi-band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-05 Motohiko Ezawa

Two-dimensional magnets have manifested themselves as promising candidates for quantum devices. We here report that the edge and strain effects during the device fabrication with two-dimensional honeycomb ferromagnets such as CrX$_3$ (X=Cl,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-07 Tianyu Liu , Zheng Shi , Hai-Zhou Lu , X. C. Xie

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

A space-time dependent node separation in Weyl semimetals acts as an axial vector field. Coupled with domain wall motion in magnetic Weyl semimetals, this induces axial electric and magnetic fields localized at the domain wall. We show how…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-07 Julia D. Hannukainen , Yago Ferreiros , Alberto Cortijo , Jens H. Bardarson

The discovery of a chiral anomaly in Weyl semimetals, the non-conservation of chiral charge and energy across two opposite chirality Weyl nodes, has sparked immense interest in understanding its impact on various physical phenomena. Here,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 Sunit Das , Kamal Das , Amit Agarwal

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 fermions are powerful yet simple entities that connect geometry, topology, and physics. While their existence as fundamental particles is still uncertain, growing evidence shows they emerge as quasiparticles in special materials called…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-17 Azaz Ahmad

We study the longitudinal magnetotransport in three-dimensional multi-Weyl semimetals, constituted by a pair of (anti)-monopole of arbitrary integer charge ($n$), with $n=1,2$ and $3$ in a crystalline environment. For any $n>1$, even though…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-28 Renato M. A. Dantas , Francisco Peña-Benitez , Bitan Roy , Piotr Surówka