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We study second harmonic generation in centrosymmetric Weyl semimetal with broken time reversal symmetry. We calculate electric current density at the double frequency of the propagating electromagnetic field in the presence of applied…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-03 A. A. Zyuzin , A. Yu. Zyuzin

We demonstrate that in an ideal Weyl semimetal, in which the Fermi energy coincides with the band-touching nodes, weak direct inter-nodal scattering is irrelevant and, as a result, the chiral charge is (almost) exactly conserved. This leads…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-25 A. A. Burkov

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

Chirality, a characteristic handedness that distinguishes 'left' from 'right', cuts widely across all of nature$^1$, from the structure of DNA$^2$ to opposite chirality of particles and antiparticles$^3$. In condensed matter chiral fermions…

Weyl semimetal may be thought of as a gapless topological phase protected by the chiral anomaly, where the symmetries involved in the anomaly are the $U(1)$ charge conservation and the crystal translational symmetry. The absence of a band…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-03-09 Chong Wang , L. Gioia , A. A. Burkov

Propagating chiral magnetic waves (CMW) are expected to exist in chiral plasmas due to the interplay between the chiral magnetic and chiral separation effects induced by the presence of a chiral anomaly. Unfortunately, it was pointed out…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-02 Yongjun Ahn , Matteo Baggioli , Yan Liu , Xin-Meng Wu

Three-dimensional Weyl and Dirac semimetals can support a chiral-symmetry-breaking, fully gapped, charge-density-wave order even for sufficiently weak repulsive electron-electron interactions, when placed in strong magnetic fields. In the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-25 Bitan Roy , Jay D. Sau

We review recent theoretical and experimental developments in magnetic Weyl semimetals, focusing on the electromagnetic responses emerging from the interplay of their electronic band topology and magnetism. We begin by introducing the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-25 Akihiro Ozawa , Yasufumi Araki , Koji Kobayashi , Kentaro Nomura

The axial magnetic effect, i.e., the generation of an energy current parallel to an axial magnetic field coupling with opposite signs to left- and right-handed fermions is a non-dissipative transport phenomenon intimately related to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-02-28 Maxim N. Chernodub , Alberto Cortijo , Adolfo G. Grushin , Karl Landsteiner , Maria A. H. Vozmediano

Magnetic Weyl semimetals exhibit intriguing transport phenomena due to their non-trivial band structure. Recent experiments in bulk crystals of the shandite-type Co$_3$Sn$_2$S$_2$ have shown that this material system is a magnetic Weyl…

We studied the Klein paradox in zigzag (ZNR) and anti-zigzag (AZNR) graphene nanoribbons. Due to the fact that ZNR (the number of lattice sites across the nanoribbon (N is even) and AZNR (N is odd) configurations are indistinguishable when…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-18 O. Roslyak , A. Iurov , Godfrey Gumbs , Danhong Huang

We investigate the diffusive electron-transport properties of charge-doped graphene ribbons and nanoribbons with imperfect edges. We consider different regimes of edge scattering, ranging from wide graphene ribbons with (partially)…

Weyl semimetals possess massless chiral quasi-particles, and are thus affected by the triangle anomalies. We discuss the features of the chiral magnetic and chiral vortical effects specific to Weyl semimetals, and then propose three novel…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-01-30 Gokce Basar , Dmitri E. Kharzeev , Ho-Ung Yee

Topological Dirac and Weyl semimetals have an energy spectrum that hosts Weyl nodes appearing in pairs of opposite chirality. Topological stability is ensured when the nodes are separated in momentum space and unique spectral and transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-13 Adolfo G. Grushin , Jorn W. F. Venderbos , Ashvin Vishwanath , Roni Ilan

We predict a specific type of charge Hall effect in undoped ferromagnetic graphene that is generated by the spin Hall mechanism in the absence of an external magnetic field. The essential feature is the so-called spin chiral configuration…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-27 Babak Zare Rameshti , Malek Zareyan

Coherent spin-dependent transport through a junction containing of Normal/Ferromagnetic/Normal bilayer graphene nanoribbon with zigzag edges is investigated by using Landauer formalism. In a more realistic set-up, the exchange field is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-05 Vahid Derakhshan , Hosein Cheraghchi

We analyze the chiral p-wave superconductor in the low temperature region. The superconductor has a epsilon_{x} p_{x} + i epsilon_{y} p_{y}-wave gap in two dimensional space (2D). Near the second superconducting transition point, the system…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Goryo

In our quest to unravel the topological properties of nodal points in three-dimensional semimetals, one hallmark property which warrants our attention is the \textit{chiral anomaly}. In the Brillouin zone (BZ), the sign of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-11 Ipsita Mandal

There is evidence for existence of massless Dirac quasi-particles in graphene, which satisfy Dirac equation in (1+2) dimensions near the so called Dirac points which lie at the corners at the graphene's brilluoin zone. It is shown that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-31 Riazuddin

It is known that the contribution of torsion to the equation for the chiral Weyl fermions can be equivalently considered in terms of the axial $U(1)$ gauge field. In this scenario the gravitational field transforms to the $U(1)$ gauge…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-04-28 G. E. Volovik