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Electrical transport in semiconductor superlattices is studied within a fully self-consistent quantum transport model based on nonequilibrium Green functions, including phonon and impurity scattering. We compute both the drift…

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Recent studies suggest that the nonlinear transport properties in Weyl semimetal may be a measurable consequence of its chiral anomaly. Nonlinear responses in transport are estimated to be substantial, because in real materials such as TaAs…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-16 Min Ju Park , Suik Cheon , Hyun-Woo Lee

Transport of charge and valley degrees of freedom coupled to order-parameter dynamics in magnetic Weyl semimetals is studied in the framework of nonequilibrium thermodynamics. In addition to the established valley-related transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-10 Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

We propose a modified Boltzmann nonlinear electric-transport framework which differs from the nonlinear generalization of the linear Boltzmann formalism by a contribution that has no counterpart in linear response. This contribution follows…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-06 Cong Xiao , Z. Z. Du , Qian Niu

We study the electromagnetic properties of Weyl semimetals with strong interactions. Focusing on a single Weyl cone in the band structure, we induce strong interactions by coupling the Weyl fermion with a tunable coupling constant $g_f$ to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-11 V. P. J. Jacobs , Panagiotis Betzios , Umut Gursoy , H. T. C. Stoof

Linear response theory serves as a fundamental tool in the study of quantum transport, extensively employed to elucidate fundamental mechanisms related to the nature of the particles involved and the underlying symmetries. This framework…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 Gu Zhang , Igor Gornyi , Yuval Gefen

Weyl semimetal (WSM) thin films exhibit distinct electronic properties compared to their bulk counterparts. In this study, we theoretically investigate the nonreciprocal ballistic transport phenomena arising in WSM thin films due to surface…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-12 M. H. Zou , R. Ma , S. J. Xu , W. Chen , H. Geng , L. Sheng , D. Y. Xing

Fermi arcs in Weyl semimetals provide a unique platform for surface-state engineering, yet di rectly tracking of their evolution under surface tuning remains experimentally challenging. Here we theoretically propose that nonreciprocal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 K. X. Jia , H. C. Li , M. H. Zou , H. Geng , Hua Jiang

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

Weyl semimetals (WSMs) have unusual optical response originated from unique topological properties of their bulk and surface electron states. Their third-order optical nonlinearity is expected to be very strong, especially at long…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Sultan Almutairi , Qianfan Chen , Mikhail Tokman , Alexey Belyanin

Nonreciprocal transport phenomena indicate that the forward and backward flows differ, and are attributed to broken inversion symmetry. In this paper, we study the nonreciprocity of a thermal and thermoelectric transport of electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-13 Ryota Nakai , Naoto Nagaosa

This chapter describes topological (Dirac and Weyl) semimetals from the viewpoint of their observable electromagnetic response. We argue that this response may be represented by topological terms with unquantized (non-integer) coefficients…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-18 A. A. Burkov

The nonlinear transport regime is manifested in the nonlinear current-voltage characteristic of the system. An example of such a nonlinear regime is a setup in which current is injected into the sample and the measured voltage drop is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-06 Dmitry V. Chichinadze

Chiral multifold fermions are quasiparticles described by higher spin generalizations of the Weyl equation, and are realized as low energy excitations near symmetry protected band crossings in certain chiral crystals. In this work we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Miguel-Ángel Sánchez-Martínez , Fernando de Juan , Adolfo G. Grushin

Weyl semimetals are a new paradigmatic topological phase of matter featuring a gapless spectrum. One of its most distinctive features is the presence of Fermi arc surface states. Here, we report on atomistic simulations of the dc…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-20 Jose Chesta Lopez , Luis E. F. Foa Torres , Alvaro S. Nunez

We systematically derive the dissipationless quantum kinetic equation for a multi-band free fermionic system with U(1) symmetry. Using the Moyal product formalism, we fully band-diagonalize the dynamics. Expanding to the second order in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-09 Takamori Park , Xiaoyang Huang , Lucile Savary , Leon Balents

We present the first theoretical study of transport properties of Weyl semimetals with point defects. Focusing on a class of time-reversal symmetric Weyl lattice models, we show that dilute lattice vacancies induce a finite density of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-04 J. P. Santos Pires , Simão M. João , Aires Ferreira , B. Amorim , J. M. Viana Parente Lopes

We continue our investigations of the nature of the linear-response tensors in planar-Hall and planar-thermal Hall configurations, involving three-dimensional nodal-point semimetals, by considering here nodes hosting pseudospin-1…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-04 Firdous Haidar , Ipsita Mandal

There is considerable current interest to explore electronic topology in strongly correlated metals, with heavy fermion systems providing a promising setting. Recently, a Weyl-Kondo semimetal phase has been concurrently discovered in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-04-01 Sarah E. Grefe , Hsin-Hua Lai , Silke Paschen , Qimiao Si

Dirac semi-metals show a linear electronic dispersion in three dimension described by two copies of the Weyl equation, a theoretical description of massless relativistic fermions. At the surface of a crystal, the breakdown of fermion…

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