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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

This study investigates the transport parameters in multi-Weyl semimetals, focusing on their magneto-optical properties and the role of chiral states. The tilting parameter is identified as a key factor in higher-order Weyl nodes,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 Sushmita Saha , Deepannita Das , Alestin Mawrie

The condensed-matter version of the chiral anomaly describes how electrons are pumped from a Weyl node with negative chirality to a Weyl node with positive chirality using parallel electric and magnetic fields. Key experimental signatures…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-12 Yongjian Wang , Alexander Wowchik , Thomas Boemerich , A. A. Taskin , Achim Rosch , Yoichi Ando

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

Compensated semimetals with Weyl spectra are predicted to exhibit unsaturated linear growth of their resistivity in quantizing magnetic fields. This so-called quantum linear magnetoresistance was introduced by Abrikosov, but approximations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-15 Alexander Kazantsev , Alexey Berdyugin , Andre Geim , Alessandro Principi

Weyl semimetals are examples of a new class of topological states of matter which are gapless in the bulk with protected surface states. Their low energy sector is characterized by massless chiral fermions which are robust against…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-22 Michael Phillips , Vivek Aji

The phenomenon of nonlinear transport has attracted tremendous interest within the condensed matter community. We present a theoretical framework for nonlinear transport based on the nonequilibrium retarded Green's function, and examine the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-02-28 Mei-Wei Hu , Zhuo-Yan Fang , Hou-Jian Duan , Mou Yang , Ming-Xun Deng , Rui-Qiang Wang

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

A Weyl semimetal (WSM)\ is a three-dimensional topological phase of matter where pairs of nondegenerate bands cross at isolated points in the Brillouin zone called Weyl nodes. Near these points, the electronic dispersion is gapless and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-20 Samuel Vadnais , Rene Cote

Recent studies have shown that chiral anomaly is not limited to Weyl semimetals (WSMs), but are also shown by a larger class of materials called spin orbit coupled noncentrosymmetric metals (SOC-NCMs),which has shed more insight into the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Gautham Varma K , Mohd. Hashim Raza , Azaz Ahmad

The quest for topological states in strongly correlated materials is challenging but essential from fundamental research and application perspectives. The magnetic Weyl semimetal (WSM) state in the chiral antiferromagnet Mn$_3$Sn emerges…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-04-05 Shunichiro Kurosawa , Takahiro Tomita , Ikhlas Muhammad , Mingxuan Fu , Akito Sakai , Satoru Nakatsuji

Hall effect of topological quantum materials often reveals essential new physics and possesses potential for application. Magnetic Weyl semimetal is one especially interesting example that hosts an interplay between the spontaneous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-18 Xiao-Xiao Zhang , Naoto Nagaosa

For a Weyl semimetal (WSM) in a magnetic field, a semiclassical description of the Fermi-arc surface state dynamics is usually employed for explaining various unconventional magnetotransport phenomena, e.g., Weyl orbits, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-02 Tim Bauer , Francesco Buccheri , Alessandro De Martino , Reinhold Egger

We study the effects a strong Coulomb disorder on the transverse magnetoresistance in Weyl semimetals at low temperatures. Using the diagrammatic technique and the Keldysh model to sum up the leading terms in the diagrammatic expansion, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-19 Ya. I. Rodionov , K. I. Kugel , B. A. Aronzon

Recently, negative longitudinal and positive in-plane transverse magnetoresistance have been observed in most topological Dirac/Weyl semimetals, and some other topological materials. Here we present a quantum theory of intrinsic…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-08-29 Huan-Wen Wang , Bo Fu , Shun-Qing Shen

Internodal dynamics of quasiparticles in Weyl semimetals manifest themselves in hydrodynamic, transport and thermodynamic phenomena and are essential for potential valleytronic applications of these systems. In an external magnetic field,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-19 G. Bednik , K. S. Tikhonov , S. V. Syzranov

We show that the emergence of the axial anomaly is a universal phenomenon for a generic three dimensional metal in the presence of parallel electric ($E$) and magnetic ($B$) fields. In contrast to the expectations of the classical theory of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-25 Pallab Goswami , J. H. Pixley , S. Das Sarma

NbP is a recently realized Weyl semimetal (WSM), hosting Weyl points through which conduction and valence bands cross linearly in the bulk and exotic Fermi arcs appear. However, the most intriguing transport phenomenon of a WSM, the chiral…

The intertwining of magnetism with topology is known to give rise to exotic quantum phenomena. Here, we explore the magnetotransport properties of NdAlSi, a magnetic Weyl semimetal that spontaneously breaks inversion and time-reversal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-06 Bo Zhang , Junbo Liao , Zhentao Huang , Yanyan Shangguan , Shufan Cheng , Hao Xu , Zihang Song , Shuai Dong , Song Bao , Rui Wang , Jinsheng Wen

The progress in exploiting new electronic materials and devices has been a major driving force in solid-state physics. As a new state of matter, a Weyl semimetal (WSM), particularly a type-II WSM, hosts Weyl fermions as emergent…