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The chiral magnetic effect is a phenomenon where an electromagnetic current is generated along a magnetic field. Recently, in nonequilibrium systems, negative longitudinal magnetoresistance has been observed experimentally in Dirac/Weyl…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-18 Yohei Ibe , Hiroaki Sumiyoshi

We investigate linear and nonlinear transverse planar transport phenomena (viz. linear and nonlinear Hall and Nernst coefficients) induced by chiral anomaly in three-dimensional spin-orbit coupled metallic systems. Unlike Weyl semimetals,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-11 Rishi G. Gopalakrishnan , Binayyak B. Roy , Gargee Sharma , Sumanta Tewari

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

We present a theory of the anomalous Hall effect in a topological Weyl superconductor with broken time reversal symmetry. Specifically, we consider a ferromagnetic Weyl metal with two Weyl nodes of opposite chirality near the Fermi energy.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-08-24 G. Bednik , A. A. Zyuzin , A. A. Burkov

Weyl semimetals are a unique class of topological materials, possessing Fermi-arc surface states and exhibiting the chiral anomaly effect. The chiral anomaly refers to non-equilibrium charge transfer within a Weyl-node pair of opposite…

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 a three dimensional topological phase of matter with linearly dispersed Weyl points which appear in pairs and carry opposite chirality. The separation of paired Weyl points allows charge transfer between them in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-08 Salah Uddin , Wenye Duan , Jun Wang , Zhongshui Ma , Jun-Feng Liu

Weyl fermions are two-component chiral fermions in (3+1)-dimensions. When coupled to a gauge field, the Weyl fermion is known to have an axial anomaly, which means the current conservation of the left-handed and right-handed Weyl fermions…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-06-13 Chao-Xing Liu , Peng Ye , Xiao-Liang Qi

In the presence of parallel electric and magnetic fields, the violation of separate number conservation laws for the three dimensional left and right handed Weyl fermions is known as the chiral anomaly. The recent discovery of Weyl and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-20 Gargee Sharma , Pallab Goswami , Sumanta Tewari

Weyl semimetals are gapless quasi-topological materials with a set of isolated nodal points forming their Fermi surface. They manifest their quasi-topological character in a series of topological electromagnetic responses including the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-05 Hassan Shapourian , Taylor L. Hughes

Weyl semimetals are materials where electrons behave effectively as a kind of massless relativistic particles known asWeyl fermions. These particles occur in two flavours, or chiralities, and are subject to quantum anomalies, the breaking…

Chiral magnetic effect is a quantum phenomenon that is breaking of chiral symmetry of relativistic Weyl fermions by quantum fluctuation under paralleled electric field E and magnetic field B. Intuitively, Weyl fermions with different…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-05-28 Yang-Yang Lv , Xiao Li , Bin Pang , Y. B. Chen , Shu-Hua Yao , Jian Zhou , Yan-Feng Chen

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

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

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

We study the effect of long-ranged interactions on Weyl semimetals. Such interactions can give rise to unpaired Weyl nodes, which we demonstrate by explicitly constructing a system with just a single node - a situation that is fundamentally…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-02-06 Tobias Meng , Jan Carl Budich

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 provide a review of recent experimental results on the chiral anomaly in Dirac/Weyl semimetals. After a brief introduction, we trace the steps leading to the prediction of materials that feature protected 3D bulk Dirac nodes. The chiral…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-10-29 N. P. Ong , Sihang Liang

Magneto conductivities in Weyl semimetals (WSM) in presence of small fields are studied using quasi-classical Boltzmann transport equations (BTE). Following such formalism here we consider irradiation via circularly polarized light on a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-10-11 Rounak Sen , Satyaki Kar

The chiral anomaly is one of the robust quantum effects in relativistic field theories with a chiral symmetry where charges in chiral sectors appear to be separately conserved. The chiral anomaly, which is often associated with a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-27 Shuyang Wang , Jay D. Sau