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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

Magnetic field effect on linear and nonlinear conductivity in a quasi-one-dimensional Weyl semimetal with a charge density wave (CDW) (TaSe$_4$)$_2$I is studied. Longitudinal magnetoresistance in all known regimes of CDW motion (linear…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-09-11 I. A. Cohn , S. G. Zybtsev , A. P. Orlov , S. V. Zaitsev-Zotov

Dirac and Weyl semimetals form an ideal platform for testing ideas developed in high energy physics to describe massless relativistic particles. One such quintessentially field-theoretic idea of chiral anomaly already resulted in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-03 D. I. Pikulin , Anffany Chen , M. Franz

Recent transport experiments have revealed the activation of longitudinal magnetoresistance of Weyl semimetals in the quantum limit, suggesting the breakdown of chiral anomaly in a strong magnetic field. Here we provide a general mechanism…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-23 Ching-Kit Chan , Patrick A. Lee

The identification of distinct charge transport features, deriving from nontrivial bulk band and surface states, has been a challenging subject in the field of topological systems. In topological Dirac and Weyl semimetals, nontrivial…

We develop a semiclassical Boltzmann theory for frequency-dependent magneto-optical transport in Weyl semimetals (WSMs), incorporating momentum-dependent relaxation via a scattering matrix approach. The interplay of orbital magnetic moment,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Azaz Ahmad , Pankaj Bhalla , Snehasish Nandy , Tanay Nag

Negative magnetoresistance is one of the manifestations of the chiral anomaly in Weyl semimetals. The magneto-optical conductivity also shows transitions between Landau levels that are not spaced as in an ordinary electron gas. How are such…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-08-05 S. Acheche , R. Nourafkan , J. Padayasi , N. Martin , A. -M. S. Tremblay

We present the detailed analyses of magneto-conductivities in a Weyl semimetal within Born and self-consistent Born approximations. In the presence of the charged impurities, the linear magnetoresistance can happen when the charge carriers…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-11 Xiao Xiao , K. T. Law , P. A. Lee

We propose a non-dissipative transport effect and vortical response in Weyl semimetals in the presence of spatial inhomogeneities, namely a spatially varying tilt of the Weyl cones. We show that when the spectrum is anisotropic and tilted…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-28 Saber Rostamzadeh , Sevval Tasdemir , Mustafa Sarisaman , S. A. Jafari , Mark-Oliver Goerbig

Weyl semimetals in a magnetic field give rise to interesting non-local electronic orbits: the ballistic transport through the bulk enabled by the chiral Landau levels is combined with a momentum-space sliding along the surface Fermi-arc…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-27 Valerio Peri , Tena Dubček , Agnes Valenti , Roni Ilan , Sebastian D. Huber

Weyl semimetals are phases of matter with excitations effectively described by massless Dirac fermions. Their critical nature makes unclear the persistence of such phase in presence of disorder. We present a theorem ensuring the stability…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-08 Vieri Mastropietro

We present effective field theories for the weakly coupled Weyl-$\mathrm{Z}_2$ semimetal, as well as the holographic realization for the strongly coupled case. In both cases, the anomalous systems have both the chiral anomaly and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-17 Xuanting Ji , Yan Liu , Ya-Wen Sun , Yun-Long Zhang

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

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

Magnetic topological materials, which combine magnetism and topology, are expected to host emerging topological states and exotic quantum phenomena. In this study, with the aid of greatly enhanced coercive fields in high-quality nanoflakes…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-06-08 Qingqi Zeng , Gangxu Gu , Gang Shi , Jianlei Shen , Bei Ding , Shu Zhang , Xuekui Xi , Claudia Felser , Yongqing Li , Enke Liu

We present a theory of thermoelectric transport in weakly disordered Weyl semimetals where the electron-electron scattering time is faster than the electron-impurity scattering time. Our hydrodynamic theory consists of relativistic fluids…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-08-31 Andrew Lucas , Richard A. Davison , Subir Sachdev

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 manifestation of Weyl fermions in strongly correlated electron systems is of particular interest. We report evidence for Weyl fermions in the heavy fermion semimetal YbPtBi from electronic structure calculations, angle-resolved…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-11-07 C. Y. Guo , F. Wu , Z. Z. Wu , M. Smidman , C. Cao , A. Bostwick , C. Jozwiak , E. Rotenberg , Y. Liu , F. Steglich , H. Q. Yuan

We propose a way to observe the chiral magnetic effect in non-centrosymmetric Weyl semimetals under the action of strong electric field, via the non-linear part of their I-V characteristic that is odd in the external magnetic field, or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 S. Nandy , D. A. Pesin

We investigated the pressure evolution of the electrical transport in the almost compensated Weyl semimetal TaP. In addition, we obtained information on the modifications of the Fermi-surface topology with pressure from the analysis of…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-04-12 M. Besser , R. D. dos Reis , F. -R. Fan , M. O. Ajeesh , Y. Sun , M. Schmidt , C. Felser , M. Nicklas