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Weyl semimetals realize massless relativistic fermions with two Weyl nodes separated in energy and momentum space, whose low-energy physics is described by Dirac fermions with an axial gauge constant. Here, we study their electromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-10 Tatsuya Amitani , Yusuke Nishida

Weyl semimetals are three-dimensional crystalline systems where pairs of bands touch at points in momentum space, termed Weyl nodes, that are characterized by a definite topological charge: the chirality. Consequently, they exhibit the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-10-05 S. A. Parameswaran , T. Grover , D. A. Abanin , D. A. Pesin , A. Vishwanath

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

Weyl fermions, which are fermions with definite chiralities, can give rise to anomalous breaking of the symmetry of the physical system which they are a part of. In their (3+1)-dimensional realizations in condensed matter systems, i.e., the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-17 Jimmy A. Hutasoit , Jiadong Zang , Radu Roiban , Chao-Xing Liu

We study electric field and temperature gradient driven magnetoconductivity of a Weyl semimetal system. To analyze the responses, we utilize the kinetic equation with semiclassical equations of motion modified by the Berry curvature and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-16 Vladimir A. Zyuzin

In Weyl semimetals the application of parallel electric and magnetic fields leads to valley polarization -- an occupation disbalance of valleys of opposite chirality -- a direct consequence of the chiral anomaly. In this work, we present…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-02 Pablo M. Perez-Piskunow , Nicandro Bovenzi , Anton R. Akhmerov , Maxim Breitkreiz

Weyl semimetals are a new class of Dirac material that posses bulk energy nodes in three dimensions. In this paper, we study a Weyl semimetal subject to an applied magnetic field. We derive expressions for the density of states, electronic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-04-30 Phillip E. C. Ashby , J. P. Carbotte

Internodal dynamics of quasiparticles in Weyl semimetals manifest themselves in hydrodynamic, transport and thermodynamic phenomena and are essential for potential valleytronic applications of these systems. In an external magnetic field,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-19 G. Bednik , K. S. Tikhonov , S. V. Syzranov

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

We study the electromagnetic properties of Weyl semimetals with strong interactions. Focusing on a single Weyl cone in the band structure, we induce strong interactions by coupling the Weyl fermion with a tunable coupling constant $g_f$ to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-11 V. P. J. Jacobs , Panagiotis Betzios , Umut Gursoy , H. T. C. Stoof

Weyl degeneracies in spectra of magnetoplasma waves enable nonreciprocal energy flow and topologically protected modes, yet conventional materials require impractical magnetic fields to operate. Developing an effective Hamiltonian framework…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-16 Yuanzhao Wang , Oleg V. Kotov , Dmitry K. Efimkin

Using the Feynman diagram techniques, we derive the finite-temperature conductivity and magnetoconductivity formulas from the quantum interference and electron-electron interaction, for a three-dimensional disordered Weyl semimetal. For a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-15 Hai-Zhou Lu , Shun-Qing Shen

Recent discovery of both gapped and gapless topological phases in weakly correlated electron systems has introduced various relativistic particles and a number of exotic phenomena in condensed matter physics. The Weyl fermion is a prominent…

We study the hydrodynamic transport of electrons in a Weyl semimetal in a strong magnetic field. Impurity scattering in a Weyl semimetal with two Weyl nodes is strongly anisotropic as a function of the direction of the field and is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-29 Siyu Zhu , Grigory Bednik , Sergey Syzranov

Magnetotransport and magneto-optics experiments offer a very powerful probe for studying the physical properties of materials. Here, we investigate the second-order nonlinear magnetoconductivity of tilted type-I Weyl and multi-Weyl…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 Sunit Das , Kamal Das , Amit Agarwal

Recent theoretical and experimental attemps have been successful in finding magnetic Weyl semimetal phases, which show both nodal-point structure in the electronic bands and magnetic orders. Beyond uniform ferromagnetic or antiferromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-18 Yasufumi Araki

We theoretically address the effects of strong magnetic fields in three-dimensional Weyl semimetals (WSMs) built out of Weyl nodes with a monopole charge $n$. For $n=1$, $2$, and $3$ we realize single, double, and triple WSM, respectively,…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-11-29 Xiao Li , Bitan Roy , S. Das Sarma

Multi-Weyl semimetals are a kind of topological phase of matter with discrete Weyl nodes characterized by multiple monopole charges, in which the chiral anomaly, the anomalous nonconservation of an axial current, occurs in the presence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-09 Ze-Min Huang , Jianhui Zhou , Shun-Qing Shen

In disordered Weyl semimetals, mechanisms of topological origin lead to novel mechanisms of transport, which manifest themselves in unconventional types of electromagnetic response. Prominent examples of transport phenomena particular to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-10 Alexander Altland , Dmitry Bagrets

We present a field theoretical model of anomalous transport in Weyl semi-metals. We calculate the Chiral Magnetic and Chiral Vortical Effect in the electric, axial (valley) and energy current. Our findings coincide with the results of a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-02-26 Karl Landsteiner
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