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We consider the phenomenon of natural optical activity, and related chiral magnetic effect in metals with low carrier concentration. To reveal the correspondence between the two phenomena, we compute the optical conductivity of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-18 Jing Ma , D. A. Pesin

Torsional strain in Weyl semimetals excites a unidirectional chiral density wave propagating in the direction of the torsional vector. This gapless excitation, named the chiral sound wave, is generated by a particular realization of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-24 Matteo Baggioli , Maxim N. Chernodub , Karl Landsteiner , Maria A. H. Vozmediano

We investigate the role of the chiral anomaly in hydrodynamic and crossover regimes of transport in a Weyl or Dirac semimetal film. We show that the magnetic-field-dependent part of the electric conductivity in the direction of the magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-25 P. O. Sukhachov , Björn Trauzettel

We present a theory of magnetotransport phenomena related to the chiral anomaly in Weyl semimetals. We show that conductivity, thermal conductivity, thermoelectric and the sound absorption coefficients exhibit strong and anisotropic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-10 B. Z. Spivak , A. V. Andreev

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

A space-time dependent node separation in Weyl semimetals acts as an axial vector field. Coupled with domain wall motion in magnetic Weyl semimetals, this induces axial electric and magnetic fields localized at the domain wall. We show how…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-07 Julia D. Hannukainen , Yago Ferreiros , Alberto Cortijo , Jens H. Bardarson

We predict a linear logarithmical scaling law of Bloch oscillation dynamics in Weyl semimetals (WSMs), which can be applied to detect Weyl nodal points. Applying the semiclassical dynamics for quasiparticles which are accelerated bypassing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-28 Yan-Qi Wang , Xiong-Jun Liu

We study the low-energy single-electron transport across a junction of two magnetic Weyl semimetals, in which the anisotropy axes are tilted one respect to the other. Using a two-band model with a potential step, we compute the transmission…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-15 Francesco Buccheri , Reinhold Egger , Alessandro De Martino

We report comprehensive studies of the single crystal growth and electrical transport properties for various samples of TaAs, the first experimentally confirmed inversion symmetry-breaking Weyl semimetal. The transport parameters for…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-02-07 Cheng-Long Zhang , Zhujun Yuan , Qing-Dong Jiang , Bingbing Tong , Chi Zhang , X. C. Xie , Shuang Jia

The chiral anomaly is a fundamental quantum mechanical phenomenon which is of great importance to both particle physics and condensed matter physics alike. In the context of QED it manifests as the breaking of chiral symmetry in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-05-12 Colin Rylands , Alireza Parhizkar , Anton A. Burkov , Victor Galitski

We discuss phenomenological implications of the anomalous transport induced by the scale anomaly in QCD coupled to an electromagnetic (EM) field, based on a dilaton effective theory. The scale anomalous current emerges in a way perfectly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-09 Mamiya Kawaguchi , Shinya Matsuzaki , Xu-Guang Huang

The Weyl semimetal, due to a non-zero energy difference in the pair of Weyl nodes shows chiral magnetic effect(CME). This leads to a flow of dissipationless electric current along an applied magnetic field. Such a chiral magnetic effect in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-04-06 Debanand Sa

Weyl semimetals have nodes in their electronic structure at which electrons attain a definite chirality. Due to the chiral anomaly, the non-conservation of charges with given chirality, the axion term appears in their effective…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-03-07 Vira Shyta , Jeroen van den Brink , Flavio S. Nogueira

Weyl semimetals are three-dimensional topological states of matter, in a sense that they host paired monopoles and antimonopoles of Berry curvature in momentum space, leading to the chiral anomaly. The chiral anomaly has long been believed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Hai-Zhou Lu , Song-Bo Zhang , Shun-Qing Shen

The nodal points in a Weyl semimetal are generally considered as the causes of the chiral anomaly and the chiral magnetic effect (CME). Employing a linear-response analysis of a two-band lattice model, we show that the Weyl nodes and thus…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-10 Ming-Che Chang , Min-Fong Yang

We describe a new type of the Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) that should occur in Weyl semimetals with an asymmetry in the dispersion relations of the left- and right-handed chiral Weyl fermions. In such materials, time-dependent pumping of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-28 Dmitri Kharzeev , Yuta Kikuchi , Rene Meyer

Weyl semimetals are conductors whose low-energy bulk excitations are Weyl fermions, whereas their surfaces possess metallic Fermi arc surface states. These Fermi arc surface states are protected by a topological invariant associated with…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-02-24 M. Zahid Hasan , Su-Yang Xu , Ilya Belopolski , Shin-Ming Huang

Compared with the semiconductors such as silicon and gallium arsenide which have been used widely for decades, semimetals have not received much attention in the field of condensed matter physics until very recently. The realization of…

Weyl electrons are intensely studied due to novel charge transport phenomena such as chiral anomaly, Fermi arcs, and photogalvanic effect. Recent theoretical works suggest that Weyl electrons can also participate in magnetic interactions,…

The quest for topological states in strongly correlated materials is challenging but essential from fundamental research and application perspectives. The magnetic Weyl semimetal (WSM) state in the chiral antiferromagnet Mn$_3$Sn emerges…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-04-05 Shunichiro Kurosawa , Takahiro Tomita , Ikhlas Muhammad , Mingxuan Fu , Akito Sakai , Satoru Nakatsuji