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We theoretically study electrical responses of magnetization in Weyl semimetals. The Weyl semimetal is a new class of topological semimetals, possessing hedgehog type spin textures in momentum space. Because of this peculiar spin texture,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-07 Daichi Kurebayashi , Kentaro Nomura

We study the current-induced torques in asymmetric magnetic tunnel junctions containing a conventional ferromagnet and a magnetic Weyl semimetal contact. The Weyl semimetal hosts chiral bulk states and topologically protected Fermi arc…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-16 D. J. P. de Sousa , Fei Xue , J. P. Wang , P. M. Haney , Tony Low

We theoretically study the axial current $\bm{j}_5$ (defined as the difference between the charge current with opposite chirality) in doped Weyl semimetal using a Green's function technique. We show that the axial current is controlled by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-26 Katsuhisa Taguchi , Yukio Tanaka

We demonstrate electrical magnetization switching and spin pumping in magnetically doped Weyl semimetals. The Weyl semimetal is a new class of topological semimetals, known to have nontrivial coupling between the charge and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-02 Daichi Kurebayashi , Kentaro Nomura

We show how the axial (chiral) anomaly induces a spin torque on the magnetization in magnetic Weyl semimetals. The anomaly produces an imbalance in left- and right-handed chirality carriers when non-orthogonal electric and magnetic fields…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-27 Julia D. Hannukainen , Alberto Cortijo , Jens H. Bardarson , Yago Ferreiros

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

In magnetic Weyl semimetals, where magnetism breaks time-reversal symmetry, large magnetically sensitive anomalous transport responses are anticipated that could be useful for topological spintronics. The identification of new magnetic Weyl…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-08-05 D. Destraz , L. Das , S. S. Tsirkin , Y. Xu , T. Neupert , J. Chang , A. Schilling , A. G. Grushin , J. Kohlbrecher , L. Keller , P. Puphal , E. Pomjakushina , J. S. White

Reliable and energy efficient magnetization switching by electrically-induced spin-orbit torques is of crucial technological relevance for spintronic devices implementing memory and logic functionality. Here we predict that the strength of…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-11-15 Jan-Philipp Hanke , Frank Freimuth , Chengwang Niu , Stefan Blügel , Yuriy Mokrousov

We experimentally compare two types of interface structures with magnetic and non-magnetic Weyl semimetals. They are the junctions between a gold normal layer and magnetic Weyl semimetal Ti$_2$MnAl, and a ferromagnetic nickel layer and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-28 V. D. Esin , D. N. Borisenko , N. N. Kolesnikov , E. V. Deviatov

The spin-transfer torque is a fundamental physical quantity to operate the spintronics devices such as racetrack memory. We theoretically study the spin-transfer torque and analyze the dynamics of the magnetic domain walls in magnetic Weyl…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-08 Daichi Kurebayashi , Kentaro Nomura

We show that Weyl semimetals exhibit a mixed axial-torsional anomaly in the presence of axial torsion, a concept exclusive of these materials with no known natural fundamental interpretation in terms of the geometry of spacetime. This…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-13 Yago Ferreiros , Yaron Kedem , Emil J. Bergholtz , Jens H. Bardarson

The axial magnetic effect, i.e., the generation of an energy current parallel to an axial magnetic field coupling with opposite signs to left- and right-handed fermions is a non-dissipative transport phenomenon intimately related to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-02-28 Maxim N. Chernodub , Alberto Cortijo , Adolfo G. Grushin , Karl Landsteiner , Maria A. H. Vozmediano

We investigate the topological phase transitions driven by band warping and a transverse magnetic field, for three-dimensional Weyl semimetals. First, we use the Chern number as a mathematical tool to derive the topological phase diagram.…

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

Spin-momentum locking in Weyl semimetals correlates the orbital motion of electrons with background magnetic textures. We show here that the dynamics of a magnetic texture in a magnetic Weyl semimetal induces a pumped electric current that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-18 Yasufumi Araki , Kentaro Nomura

Current-induced torques on ferromagnetic nanoparticles and on domain walls in ferromagnetic nanowires are normally understood in terms of transfer of conserved spin angular momentum between spin-polarized currents and the magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. M. Haney , R. A. Duine , A. S. Nunez , A. H. MacDonald

As they do not rely on the presence of any crystal symmetry, Weyl nodes are robust topological features of an electronic structure that can occur at any momentum and energy. Acting as sinks and sources of Berry curvature, Weyl nodes have…

In the rapidly expanding field of topological materials there is growing interest in systems whose topological electronic band features can be induced or controlled by magnetism. Magnetic Weyl semimetals, which contain linear band crossings…

Current-induced magnetization switching, a fundamental phenomenon related to spin-transport of electrons, enables non-voltaic and fast information write, facilitating applications in low-power memory and logic devices. However,…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-30 Yanyan Yang , Weiwei Lin

In this work, we propose a geometric nonlinear current response induced by magnetic resonance in magnetic Weyl semimetals. This phenomenon is in analog to the quantized circular photogalvanic effect previously proposed for Weyl semimetal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-28 Ruobing Mei , Chao-Xing Liu
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