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We consider the classical magnetoresistance of a Weyl metal in which the electron Fermi surface possess nonzero fluxes of the Berry curvature. Such a system may exhibit large negative magnetoresistance with unusual anisotropy as a function…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-06 D. T. Son , B. Z. Spivak

We investigate the charge and spin transport properties of a Weyl semimetal under an external magnetic field using a low-energy effective theory. By performing a chiral transformation, we remove the axial term from the fermionic Lagrangian,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 J. C. Pérez-Pedraza , A. Martín-Ruiz , L. F. Urrutia

We report the electrical transport properties for Weyl semimetal TaAs in an intense magnetic field. Series of anomalies occur in the longitudinal magnetoresistance and Hall signals at ultra-low temperatures when the Weyl electrons are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-24 Cheng-Long Zhang , Bingbing Tong , Zhujun Yuan , Ziquan Lin , Junfeng Wang , Jinglei Zhang , Chuan-Ying Xi , Zhong Wang , Shuang Jia , Chi Zhang

The Weyl semimetal NbP was found to exhibit topological Fermi arcs and exotic magneto-transport properties. Here, we report on magnetic quantum-oscillation measurements on NbP and construct the 3D Fermi surface with the help of…

Weyl metal is regarded as a platform toward interacting topological states of matter, where its topological structure gives rise to anomalous transport phenomena, referred to as chiral magnetic effect and "negative" magneto-resistivity, the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-05-29 Ki-Seok Kim , Heon-Jung Kim , M. Sasaki

Electrons in materials with linear dispersion behave as massless Weyl- or Dirac-quasiparticles, and continue to intrigue physicists due to their close resemblance to elusive ultra-relativistic particles as well as their potential for future…

The nonlocal response of chiral electron fluid in a semi-infinite Weyl semimetal slab with the electric current source and drain attached to its surface is studied by using the consistent hydrodynamic framework. It is found that the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-07-24 E. V. Gorbar , V. A. Miransky , I. A. Shovkovy , P. O. Sukhachov

In this paper, we report the intercone transport of Weyl fermions in NbAs with external magnetic field in parallel to electric field, a quantum phenomenon known as the Adler-Bell-Jackiw anomaly. Surprisingly, the resulting negative…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-11 Xiaojun Yang , Yupeng Liu , Zhen Wang , Yi Zheng , Zhu-an Xu

The separation of the Weyl nodes in a broken time-reversal symmetric Weyl semimetal leads to helical quasi-particle excitations at the Weyl nodes, which, when coupled with overall spin conservation allows only inter-nodal transport at the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-30 Udit Khanna , Dibya Kanti Mukherjee , Arijit Kundu , Sumathi Rao

We analyze the effect of the tilt on the transverse thermoelectric coefficient of Weyl semimetals in the \emph{conformal} limit, i.e., zero temperature and zero chemical potential. Using the Kubo formalism, we find a nonmonotonic behavior…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-18 Thorvald M. Ballestad , Alberto Cortijo , María A. H. Vozmediano , Alireza Qaiumzadeh

Weyl semimetals possess low energy excitations which act as monopoles of Berry curvature in momentum space. These emergent monopoles are at the heart of the extensive novel transport properties that Weyl semimetals exhibit. The singular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-20 Timothy M. McCormick , Robert C. McKay , Nandini Trivedi

The thermal chiral anomaly is a new mechanism for thermal transport that occurs in Weyl semimetals (WSM). It is attributed to the generation and annihilation of energy at Weyl points of opposite chirality. The effect was observed in the…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-12-22 Joon Sang Kang , Dung Vu , Joseph P. Heremans

Chiral anomaly and the novel quantum phenomena it induces have been widely studied for Dirac and Weyl fermions. In most typical cases, the Lorentz covariance is assumed and thus the linear dispersion relations are maintained. However, in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-21 Lan-Lan Gao , Xu-Guang Huang

Three-dimensional (3D) topological semimetals represent a new class of topological matters. The study of this family of materials has been at the frontiers of condensed matter physics, and many breakthroughs have been made. Several…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-10-03 Jin Hu , Su-Yang Xu , Ni Ni , Zhiqiang Mao

Topological semimetals have been at the forefront of experimental and theoretical attention in condensed matter physics. Among these, recently discovered Weyl semimetals have a dispersion described by a three-dimensional Dirac cone, which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-31 Weizhe Edward Liu , Ewelina M. Hankiewicz , Dimitrie Culcer

Weyl semimetal may be thought of as a gapless topological phase protected by the chiral anomaly, where the symmetries involved in the anomaly are the $U(1)$ charge conservation and the crystal translational symmetry. The absence of a band…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-03-09 Chong Wang , L. Gioia , A. A. Burkov

Parallel electric and magnetic fields applied to Weyl semimetals pump axial charge via the axial anomaly until balanced by intervalley relaxation. The resulting nonequilibrium steady state exhibits the chiral magnetic effect as well as the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-01 Yusuke Nishida

We consider the properties of electric circuits involving Weyl semimetals. The existence of the anomaly-induced chiral magnetic current in a Weyl semimetal subjected to magnetic field causes an interesting and unusual behavior of such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-18 Dmitri E. Kharzeev , Ho-Ung Yee

We study the propagation of an oscillatory electromagnetic field inside a Weyl semimetal. In conventional conductors, the motion of the charge carriers in the skin layer near the surface can be diffusive, ballistic, or hydrodynamic. We show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-16 Paweł Matus , Renato M. A. Dantas , Roderich Moessner , Piotr Surówka

As exemplified by the growing interest in the quantum anomalous Hall effect, the research on topology as an organizing principle of quantum matter is greatly enriched from the interplay with magnetism. In this vein, we present a combined…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-02-24 Y. Xu , L. Das , J. Z. Ma , C. J. Yi , S. M. Nie , Y. G. Shi , A. Tiwari , S. S. Tsirkin , T. Neupert , M. Medarde , M. Shi , J. Chang , T. Shang