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The massless fermions of a Weyl semimetal come in two species of opposite chirality, in two cones of the band structure. As a consequence, the current $j$ induced in one Weyl cone by a magnetic field $B$ (the chiral magnetic effect, CME) is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-23 T. E. O'Brien , C. W. J. Beenakker , I. Adagideli

The chiral magnetic effect (CME) is a highly discussed effect in heavy-ion collisions stating that, in the presence of a magnetic field B, an electric current is generated in the background of topologically nontrivial gluon fields. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-01-29 Ingo Kirsch , Tigran Kalaydzhyan

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

We consider magnetic Weyl semimetals. First of all we review relation of intrinsic anomalous Hall conductivity, band contribution to intrinsic magnetic moment, and the conductivity of chiral separation effect (CSE) to the topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-01 M. A. Zubkov

In condensed matter physics, the term "chiral anomaly" implies the violation of the separate number conservation laws of Weyl fermions of different chiralities in the presence of parallel electric and magnetic fields. One effect of chiral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-12 S. Nandy , Gargee Sharma , A. Taraphder , Sumanta Tewari

The chiral magnetic effect (CME) is a macroscopic transport effect resulting from the chiral anomaly. We review the recent progress in theoretical understanding the properties of chiral plasmas, in which the CME and other anomaly-induced…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-03-14 Yuji Hirono

This is a PhD dissertation. Ignited by the chiral anomaly of recently discovered Weyl (semi-)metals, we study the chiral magnetic effect and the natural optical activity of noncentrosymmetric metals. Both phenomena are related to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-14 Jing Ma

Weyl fermions are massless chiral quasiparticles existing in materials known as Weyl semimetals. Topological surface states, associated with the unusual electronic structure in the Weyl semimetals, have been recently demonstrated in linear…

Optics · Physics 2018-04-18 Ce Shang , Yuanlin Zheng , Boris A. Malomed

Weyl semimetals are one kind of three-dimensional gapless semimetal with nontrivial topology in the momentum space. The chiral anomaly in Weyl semimetals manifests as a charge imbalance between the Weyl nodes of opposite chiralities induced…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-01-19 Jianhui Zhou , Hao-Ran Chang , Di Xiao

We present an overview of our recent work on transport phenomena in Weyl metals, which may be connected to their nontrivial topological properties, particularly to chiral anomaly. We argue that there are two basic phenomena, which are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 A. A. Burkov

An unbounded massless Dirac model with two nondegenerate Dirac cones is the simplest model for Weyl semimetals, which show the anomalous electromagnetic response of chiral magnetic effect (CME) and anomalous Hall effect (AHE). However, if…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Yositake Takane

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

In the theory of the chiral anomaly in relativistic quantum field theories (RQFT) some results depend on regularization scheme at ultraviolet. In the chiral superfluid 3He-A, which contains two Weyl points and also experiences the effects…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-02-01 G. E. Volovik

The Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) is the phenomenon of electric charge separation along the external magnetic field that is induced by the chirality imbalance. The CME is a macroscopic quantum effect - it is a manifestation of the chiral…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-03-05 Dmitri E. Kharzeev

Circularly polarized light (CPL) can induce an asymmetry between the number of left- and right-handed chiral quasiparticles in Dirac and Weyl semimetals. We show that if the photoresponse of the material is dominated by chiral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-26 Sahal Kaushik , Dmitri E. Kharzeev , Evan John Philip

The chiral magnetic effect (CME) is a phenomenon in which an electric current is induced parallel to an external magnetic field in the presence of chiral asymmetry in a fermionic system. In this paper, we show that the electric current…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-20 Kohei Kamada , Chang Sub Shin

Chiral anomaly, a non-conservation of chiral charge pumped by the topological nontrivial gauge fields, has been predicted to exist in Weyl semimetals. However, until now, the experimental signature of this effect exclusively relies on the…

Chiral magnetic effect is a quantum phenomenon that is breaking of chiral symmetry of relativistic Weyl fermions by quantum fluctuation under paralleled electric field E and magnetic field B. Intuitively, Weyl fermions with different…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-05-28 Yang-Yang Lv , Xiao Li , Bin Pang , Y. B. Chen , Shu-Hua Yao , Jian Zhou , Yan-Feng Chen

Chiral magnetic effect (CME) has been suggested to take place during peripheral relativistic heavy ion collisions. However, signals of its realization are not yet independent of ambiguities and thus probing the non-trivial topological vacua…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-01-14 A. J. Mizher , A. Raya , C. Villavicencio

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