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We review our recent works on the quantum transport, mainly in topological semimetals and also in topological insulators, organized according to the strength of the magnetic field. At weak magnetic fields, we explain the negative…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-07 Hai-Peng Sun , Hai-Zhou Lu

We investigate magnetotransport across an interface between two Weyl semimetals whose Weyl nodes project onto different interface momenta. Such an interface generically hosts Fermi arcs that connect Weyl nodes of identical chirality in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-10 Adam Yanis Chaou , Vatsal Dwivedi , Maxim Breitkreiz

The magneto-optical transport of gapless type-I tilted single Weyl semimetals exhibits suppression of total magnetoconductivities in the presence of orbital magnetic moment(OMM) in linear and nonlinear responses (Yang Gao et al., Phys. Rev.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-10 Amit Gupta

We study magnetotransport in a disordered Weyl semimetal taking into account localization effects exactly. In the vicinity of a Weyl node, a single chiral Landau level coexists with a number of conventional non-chiral levels. Disorder…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 E. Khalaf , P. M. Ostrovsky

In magnetic Weyl semimetals, where magnetism breaks time-reversal symmetry, large magnetically sensitive anomalous transport responses are anticipated that could be useful for topological spintronics. The identification of new magnetic Weyl…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-08-05 D. Destraz , L. Das , S. S. Tsirkin , Y. Xu , T. Neupert , J. Chang , A. Schilling , A. G. Grushin , J. Kohlbrecher , L. Keller , P. Puphal , E. Pomjakushina , J. S. White

We investigate the nature of the magnetic phase transition induced by the short-ranged electron-electron interactions in a Weyl semimetal by using the perturbative renormalization-group method. We find that the critical point associated…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-07-19 Yu-Li Lee , Yu-Wen Lee

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 propose a torsional response raised by lattice dislocation in Weyl semimetals akin to chiral magnetic effect; i.e. a fictitious magnetic field arising from screw or edge dislocation induces charge current. We demonstrate that, in sharp…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-27 Hiroaki Sumiyoshi , Satoshi Fujimoto

Weyl semimetals are examples of a new class of topological states of matter which are gapless in the bulk with protected surface states. Their low energy sector is characterized by massless chiral fermions which are robust against…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-22 Michael Phillips , Vivek Aji

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

Weyl semimetal with Weyl fermions at Fermi energy is one of the topological materials, and is a condensed-matter realization of the relativistic fermions. However, there are several crucial differences such as the shift of Fermi energy,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Hiroaki Ishizuka , Naoto Nagaosa

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…

Tilting the Weyl cone breaks the Lorentz invariance and enriches the Weyl physics. Here, we report the observation of a magnetic-field-antisymmetric Seebeck effect in a tilted Weyl semimetal, Co$_3$Sn$_2$S$_2$. Moreover, it is found that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-02 Bingyan Jiang , Jiaji Zhao , Jiangyuan Qian , Shen Zhang , XiaoBin Qiang , Lujunyu Wang , Ran Bi , Juewen Fan , Hai-Zhou Lu , Enke Liu , Xiaosong Wu

Time-reversal symmetry breaking allows for a rich set of magneto-transport properties related to electronic topology. Focusing on the magnetic Weyl semimetal Co$_3$Sn$_2$S$_2$, we prepared micro-ribbons and investigated their transverse and…

Weyl semimetal is a topologically non-trivial phase of matter with pairs of Weyl nodes in the k-space, which act as monopole and anti-monopole pairs of Berry curvature. Two hallmarks of the Weyl metallic state are the topological surface…

A clean interface between two Weyl semimetals features a universal, field-linear tunnel magnetoconductance of $(e^2/h)N_\mathrm{ho}$ per magnetic flux quantum, where $N_\mathrm{ho}$ is the number of chirality-preserving topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Haoyang Tian , Vatsal Dwivedi , Adam Yanis Chaou , Maxim Breitkreiz

Typical Weyl semimetals host chiral surface states and hence show an anomalous Hall response. Although a Weyl semimetal phase is known to be robust against weak disorder, the influence of disorder on chiral states is not fully clarified so…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 Yositake Takane

Half-Heusler compounds from the $RE$PtBi family exemplify Weyl semimetals in which external magnetic field induce Weyl nodes. These materials exceptionally host topologically non-trivial states near the Fermi level and their manifestation…

We study the effects of anisotropy on the magnetoresistance of Weyl semimetals (WSMs) in the ultraquantum regime. We utilize the fact that many Weyl semimetals are approximately axially anisotropic. We find that anisotropy manifests itself…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-04 A. S. Dotdaev , Ya. I. Rodionov , K. I. Kugel , B. A. Aronzon

It has been suggested recently, based on subtle field-theoretical considerations, that the electromagnetic response of Weyl semimetals and the closely related Weyl insulators can be characterized by an axion term E.B with space and time…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-11 M. M. Vazifeh , M. Franz