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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

The quantum Hall effect in three-dimensional Weyl semimetal (WSM) receives significant attention for the emergence of the Fermi loop where the underlying two-dimensional Hall conductivity, namely, sheet Hall conductivity, shows quantized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-02 Feng Xiong , Carsten Honerkamp , Dante M. Kennes , Tanay Nag

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

Magnetotransport and magneto-optics experiments offer a very powerful probe for studying the physical properties of materials. Here, we investigate the second-order nonlinear magnetoconductivity of tilted type-I Weyl and multi-Weyl…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 Sunit Das , Kamal Das , Amit Agarwal

We demonstrate that topological transport phenomena, characteristic of Weyl semimetals, namely the semi-quantized anomalous Hall effect and the chiral magnetic effect (equilibrium magnetic-field-driven current), may be thought of as two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-27 A. A. Zyuzin , A. A. Burkov

Weyl semimetal with Weyl fermions at Fermi energy is one of the topological materials, and is a condensed-matter realization of the relativistic fermions. However, there are several crucial differences such as the shift of Fermi energy,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Hiroaki Ishizuka , Naoto Nagaosa

In this paper, we numerically study the magnetic transport properties of disordered Weyl semimetals (WSM) in the ultra-quantum limit. We find a positive magnetic conductivity for the long-range disorder, although the system tends to have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-27 Chui-Zhen Chen , Haiwen Liu , Hua Jiang , X. C. Xie

Negative magnetoresistance is rare in non-magnetic materials. Recently, a negative magnetoresistance has been observed in the quantum limit of $\beta$-Ag$_2$Se, where only one band of Landau levels is occupied in a strong magnetic field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-06 Bo Wan , Frank Schindler , Ke Wang , Kai Wu , Xiangang Wan , Titus Neupert , Hai-Zhou Lu

We study the longitudinal magnetotransport in three-dimensional multi-Weyl semimetals, constituted by a pair of (anti)-monopole of arbitrary integer charge ($n$), with $n=1,2$ and $3$ in a crystalline environment. For any $n>1$, even though…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-28 Renato M. A. Dantas , Francisco Peña-Benitez , Bitan Roy , Piotr Surówka

Weyl semi-metal is the three dimensional analog of graphene. According to the quantum field theory, the appearance of Weyl points near the Fermi level will cause novel transport phenomena related to chiral anomaly. In the present paper, we…

By making use of the Kubo formula, we calculate the conductivity of Dirac and Weyl semimetals in a magnetic field. We find that the longitudinal (along the direction of the magnetic field) magnetoresistivity is negative at sufficiently…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-25 E. V. Gorbar , V. A. Miransky , I. A. Shovkovy

The Fermi surface topology of a Weyl semimetal (WSM) depends strongly on the position of the chemical potential. If it resides close to the band touching points (Weyl nodes), as it does in TaAs, separate Fermi surfaces of opposite chirality…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-02-22 K. A. Modic , Tobias Meng , Filip Ronning , Eric D. Bauer , Philip J. W. Moll , B. J. Ramshaw

We study electric field and temperature gradient driven magnetoconductivity of a Weyl semimetal system. To analyze the responses, we utilize the kinetic equation with semiclassical equations of motion modified by the Berry curvature and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-16 Vladimir A. Zyuzin

We present the detailed analyses of magneto-conductivities in a Weyl semimetal within Born and self-consistent Born approximations. In the presence of the charged impurities, the linear magnetoresistance can happen when the charge carriers…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-11 Xiao Xiao , K. T. Law , P. A. Lee

Weyl metal is regarded as a platform toward interacting topological states of matter, where its topological structure gives rise to anomalous transport phenomena, referred to as chiral magnetic effect and "negative" magneto-resistivity, the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-05-29 Ki-Seok Kim , Heon-Jung Kim , M. Sasaki

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

We study magnetotransport in a disordered Weyl semimetal taking into account localization effects exactly. In the vicinity of a Weyl node, a single chiral Landau level coexists with a number of conventional non-chiral levels. Disorder…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 E. Khalaf , P. M. Ostrovsky

Topological semimetals are three-dimensional topological states of matter, in which the conduction and valence bands touch at a finite number of points, i.e., the Weyl nodes. Topological semimetals host paired monopoles and antimonopoles of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-13 Hai-Zhou Lu , Shun-Qing Shen

A low-energy model is built to study systems such as Dirac/Weyl semimetals, according to statistical quantum electrodynamics formalism. We report that the introduction of a pseudoscalar, associated to longitudinal photons propagating along…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-28 J. L. Acosta Avalo , H. Pérez Rojas

Weyl semimetals are predicted to host signature magneto-optical properties sourced by their peculiar Landau level structure, including the chiral level. Analytical studies are often leaving out the Hall component of the conductivity due to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-15 Marcus Stålhammar