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We predict a nonlinear Hall effect in certain Weyl semimetals with broken inversion symmetry. When the energy dispersions about pairs of Weyl nodes are skewed -- the Weyl cones are "tilted" -- the concerted actions of the anomalous velocity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-19 Rui-Hao Li , Olle G. Heinonen , Anton A. Burkov , Steven S. -L. Zhang

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

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

The magnetotransport properties of disordered ferromagnetic Weyl semimetals are investigated numerically. We found an extraordinarily stable and huge magnetoresistance effect in domain walls of Weyl semimetals. This effect originates from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-25 Koji Kobayashi , Yuya Ominato , Kentaro Nomura

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

There have been lots of interest in pyrochlore Iridates A2Ir2O7 where both strong spin-orbital coupling and strong correlation are present. A recent LDA calculation suggests that the system is likely in a novel three dimensional topological…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-09-20 Kai-Yu Yang , Yuan-Ming Lu , Ying Ran

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

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

Weyl semimetals are predicted to realize the three-dimensional axial anomaly first discussed in particle physics. The anomaly leads to unusual transport phenomena such as the chiral magnetic effect in which an applied magnetic field induces…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-23 Edwin Barnes , J. J. Heremans , Djordje Minic

The sound propagation properties resulting from a dynamical axion insulator generated from a Weyl semimetal are explored. Due to the axial electron-phonon coupling, the speed of sound in the material and its attenuation is seen to be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-02 Joan Bernabeu , Alberto Cortijo

Topological Dirac and Weyl semimetals have an energy spectrum that hosts Weyl nodes appearing in pairs of opposite chirality. Topological stability is ensured when the nodes are separated in momentum space and unique spectral and transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-13 Adolfo G. Grushin , Jorn W. F. Venderbos , Ashvin Vishwanath , Roni Ilan

We study the effect of inelastic processes on the magneto-transport of a quasi-one dimensional Weyl semi-metal, using a modified Boltzmann-Langevin approach. The magnetic field drives a crossover to a ballistic regime in which the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-05 P. G. Matveeva , D. N. Aristov , D. Meidan , D. B. Gutman

In Weyl semimetals, there is an intriguing possibility of realizing a pseudo-magnetic field in presence of small strain due to certain special cases of static deformations. This pseudo-magnetic field can be large enough to form quantized…

The planar Hall effect (PHE), the appearance of an in-plane transverse voltage in the presence of coplanar electric and magnetic fields, has been ascribed to the chiral anomaly and Berry curvature effects in Weyl semimetals. In the presence…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-06 L. Medel Onofre , A. Martín-Ruiz

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

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

We consider effects of spatial dispersion in noncentrosymmetric time-reversal invariant Weyl metals in the presence of a static magnetic field. In particular, we study currents that are linear in both the spatial derivatives of an applied…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-12 S. Nandy , D. A. Pesin

We present a microscopic theory of diffusive magnetotransport in Weyl metals and clarify its relation to chiral anomaly. We derive coupled diffusion equations for the total and axial charge densities and show that chiral anomaly manifests…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-17 A. A. Burkov

Quasiparticles and collective modes are two fundamental aspects that characterize a quantum matter in addition to its ground state features. For example, the low energy physics for Fermi liquid phase in He-III was featured not only by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 Zhida Song , Xi Dai

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