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The chiral anomaly is the predicted break down of chiral symmetry in a Weyl semimetal with monopoles of opposite chirality when an electric field parallel to a magnetic field is applied. It occurs because of charge pumping from a positive…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-06-09 Dung Vu , Wenjuan Zhang , Cüneyt Şahin , Michael E. Flatté , Nandini Trivedi , Joseph P. Heremans

We compute the magneto-conductance of a short junction made out of a Weyl semi-metal. We show that it displays quantum oscillations at low magnetic field and low temperature, before reaching a universal high-field regime where it increases…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-20 Thibaud Louvet , Manuel Houzet , David Carpentier

We generalize a semiclassical theory and use the argument of angular momentum conservation to examine the ballistic transport in lightly-doped Weyl semimetals, taking into account various phase-space Berry curvatures. We predict universal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-14 Shengyuan A. Yang , Hui Pan , Fan Zhang

Chiral anomaly is a key feature of Lorentz-invariant quantum field theories: in presence of parallel external electric and magnetic fields, the number of massless Weyl fermions of a given chirality is not conserved. In condensed matter,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-20 Shantonu Mukherjee , Sayantan Sharma , Hridis K. Pal

Chiral anomaly (CA), a hallmark of Weyl fermions, has emerged as a cornerstone of condensed matter physics following the discovery of Weyl semimetals. While the anomaly in pseudospin-1/2 (Weyl) systems is well-established, its extension to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-17 Azaz Ahmad , Gargee Sharma

Studies of the 3D quantum Hall effect (QHE) have primarily emphasized transport features that mimic the well-established 2D QHE. In this work, we show that qualitatively new features arise when an in-plane magnetic field is applied to a 3D…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-05 Ming Lu , Xiao-Xiao Zhang

Topological materials ranging from topological insulators to Weyl and Dirac semimetals form one of the most exciting current fields in condensed-matter research. Many half-Heusler compounds, RPtBi (R= rare earth) have been theoretically…

In a magnetic metal, the Hall resistance is generally taken to be the sum of the ordinary Hall resistance and the anomalous Hall resistance. Here it is shown that this empirical relation is no longer valid when either the ordinary Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-21 Jiaji Zhao , Bingyan Jiang , Jinying Yang , Lujunyu Wang , Hengjie Shi , Guang Tian , Zhilin Li , Enke Liu , Xiaosong Wu

The macroscopic signature for Weyl nodes so far has been the negative longitudinal magnetoresistance arising from the chiral anomaly. However, negative longitudinal magnetoresistance is not unique to chiral anomaly and can arise due to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-01 Neeraj Kumar , Y. Soh , Yihao Wang , Junbo Li , Y. Xiong

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

Topologically non-trivial nodes emerging from flat-band crossings not only enhance unconventional topological responses but also play a fundamental role in exploring correlation-driven topological physics. Here, we report the exceptionally…

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

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…

Study of magnetotransport properties of ScPtBi revealed simultaneously: a negative contribution to the longitudinal magnetoresistance, the planar Hall effect, and distinct angular narrowing of the longitudinal magnetoresistance { three…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-05-19 Orest Pavlosiuk , Andrzej Jezierski , Dariusz Kaczorowski , Piotr Wiśniewski

Chiral anomaly, a non-conservation of chiral charge pumped by the topological nontrivial gauge fields, has been predicted to exist in Weyl semimetals. However, until now, the experimental signature of this effect exclusively relies on the…

The chiral magnetic effect is the generation of electric current induced by chirality imbalance in the presence of magnetic field. It is a macroscopic manifestation of the quantum anomaly in relativistic field theory of chiral fermions…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-06-21 Qiang Li , Dmitri E. Kharzeev , Cheng Zhang , Yuan Huang , I. Pletikosic , A. V. Fedorov , R. D. Zhong , J. A. Schneeloch , G. D. Gu , T. Valla

The chiral anomaly is based on a non-conserved chiral charge and can happen in Dirac fermion systems under the influence of external electromagnetic fields. In this case, the spectral flow leads to a transfer of right- to left-moving…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-04 Christoph Fleckenstein , Niccolò Traverso Ziani , Björn Trauzettel

The Hall effect arises when time reversal symmetry is broken by either intrinsic magnetism or an external magnetic field. The latter contribution dominates in non-magnetic materials, in which the angular dependence of the Hall effect is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-13 Joshua Mutch , Xuetao Ma , Chong Wang , Paul Malinowski , Joss Ayres-Sims , Qianni Jiang , Zhaoyu Liu , Di Xiao , Matthew Yankowitz , Jiun-Haw Chu

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

Recently a large negative longitudinal (parallel to the magnetic field) magnetoresistance was observed in Weyl and Dirac semimetals. It is believed to be related to the chiral anomaly associated with topological electron band structure of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 A. V. Andreev , B. Z. Spivak