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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

A low-energy model is built to study systems such as Dirac/Weyl semimetals, according to statistical quantum electrodynamics formalism. We report that the introduction of a pseudoscalar, associated to longitudinal photons propagating along…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-28 J. L. Acosta Avalo , H. Pérez Rojas

By making use of the Kubo formula, we calculate the conductivity of Dirac and Weyl semimetals in a magnetic field. We find that the longitudinal (along the direction of the magnetic field) magnetoresistivity is negative at sufficiently…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-25 E. V. Gorbar , V. A. Miransky , I. A. Shovkovy

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

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

Weyl semimetals are a unique class of topological materials, possessing Fermi-arc surface states and exhibiting the chiral anomaly effect. The chiral anomaly refers to non-equilibrium charge transfer within a Weyl-node pair of opposite…

We suggest the possibility of a linear magnetochiral effect in time reversal breaking Weyl semimetals. Generically the magnetochiral effect consists in a simultaneous linear dependence of the magnetotransport coefficients with the magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 Alberto Cortijo

Searching for the signature of the violation of chiral charge conservation in solids has inspired a growing passion on the magneto-transport in topological semimetals. One of the open questions is how the conductivity depends on magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-01 Song-Bo Zhang , Hai-Zhou Lu , Shun-Qing Shen

Including the effect of the trivial band near Weyl nodes, we evaluate the longitudinal magnetoconductivity (LMC) of Weyl semimetals along the magnetic field direction using the Boltzmann magnetotransport theory, and study its dependence on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-19 Jeonghyeon Suh , Hongki Min

The chiral anomaly in Weyl semimetals states that the left- and right-handed Weyl fermions, constituting the low energy description, are not individually conserved, resulting, for example, in a negative magnetoresistance in such materials.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-09 Jan Behrends , Jens H. Bardarson

The low-energy quasiparticles of Weyl semimetals are a condensed-matter realization of the Weyl fermions introduced in relativistic field theory. Chiral anomaly, the nonconservation of the chiral charge under parallel electric and magnetic…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-12-29 Pilkwang Kim , Ji Hoon Ryoo , Cheol-Hwan Park

Magnetotransport investigation of a half-Heusler antiferromagnet DyPdBi revealed hallmark features of Weyl semimetal: huge negative longitudinal magnetoresistance and planar Hall effect. Both effects have recently been linked to chiral…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-04-11 Orest Pavlosiuk , Dariusz Kaczorowski , Piotr Wiśniewski

We develop a fully quantum-mechanical theory of negative magnetoresistance in multi-Weyl semimetals in the ${\bf E}\parallel{\bf B}$ configuration, where the chiral anomaly is activated. The magnetotransport response is governed by Landau…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-01 Arka Ghosh , Sushmita Saha , Alestin Mawrie

Weyl semimetals provide the realization of Weyl fermions in solid-state physics. Among all the physical phenomena that are enabled by Weyl semimetals, the chiral anomaly is the most unusual one. Here, we report signatures of the chiral…

Recently, the existence of massless chiral (Weyl) fermions has been postulated in a class of semi-metals with a non-trivial energy dispersion.These materials are now commonly dubbed Weyl semi-metals (WSM).One predicted property of Weyl…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-12 R. D. dos Reis , M. O. Ajeesh , N. Kumar , F. Arnold , C. Shekhar , M. Naumann , M. Schmidt , M. Nicklas , E. Hassinger

We study the positive longitudinal magnetoconductivity (LMC) and planar Hall effect as emergent effects of the chiral anomaly in Weyl semimetals, following a recent-developed theory by integrating the Landau quantization with Boltzmann…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-08 Ming-Xun Deng , Hou-Jian Duan , Wei Luo , W. Y. Deng , Rui-Qiang Wang , L. Sheng

We report the electric transport properties of NbAs, which is a Weyl semimetal candidate proposed by recent theoretical calculations and confirmed by recent angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) data. We detected the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-09 Xiaojun Yang , Yupeng Li , Zhen Wang , Yi Zhen , Zhu-an Xu

Weyl semimetals are a topological phase of matter that have drawn recent interest and have been suggested as a possible phase of the pyrochlore irridates, among other materials. Here, we compute the magneto-optical response of an isolated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-28 Phillip E. C. Ashby , J. P. Carbotte

Gapless Weyl semimetals (WSMs) are a novel class of topological materials that host massless Weyl fermions as their low-energy excitations. When the Weyl cone is tilted, the Lorentz invariance is broken and the Lifshitz transition drives…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-18 Yi-Xiang Wang , Fuxiang Li

In four dimensions Weyl fermions possess a chiral anomaly which leads to several special features in the transport phenomena, such as the negative longitudinal magnetoresistivity. In this paper, we study its inverse, the longitudinal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-04 Karl Landsteiner , Yan Liu , Ya-Wen Sun