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In view of searching the signature of the celebrated chiral anomaly (CA) in Weyl semimetals (WSMs) in ongoing experiments, quantum oscillation in linear response regime has been considered as an important signature in the magneto transports…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-15 Chuanchang Zeng , Snehasish Nandy , Pu Liu , Sumanta Tewari , Yugui Yao

Layered van der Waals semimetallic $T_\mathrm{d}$-WTe$_{2}$, exhibiting intriguing properties which include non-saturating extreme positive magnetoresistance (MR) and tunable chiral anomaly, has emerged as model topological type-II Weyl…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-31 R. Adhikari , S. Adhikari , B. Faina , M. Terschanski , S. Bork , C. Leimhofer , M. Cinchetti , A. Bonanni

Motivated by recent transport experiments, we theoretically study the quantum Hall effect in topological semimetal films. Owing to the confinement effect, the bulk subbands originating from the chiral Landau levels establish energy gaps…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-13 D. -H. -Minh Nguyen , Koji Kobayashi , Jan-Erik R. Wichmann , Kentaro Nomura

Condensed matter systems realizing Weyl fermions exhibit striking phenomenology derived from their topologically protected surface states as well as chiral anomalies induced by electromagnetic fields. More recently, inhomogeneous strain or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-20 Jan Behrends , Sthitadhi Roy , Michael H. Kolodrubetz , Jens H. Bardarson , Adolfo G. Grushin

Searching for the signature of the violation of chiral charge conservation in solids has inspired a growing passion on the magneto-transport in topological semimetals. One of the open questions is how the conductivity depends on magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-01 Song-Bo Zhang , Hai-Zhou Lu , Shun-Qing Shen

A Weyl semimetal has Weyl nodes that always come in pairs with opposite chiralities. Notably, different ways of connection between nodes are possible and would lead to distinct topologies. Here we identify their differences in many respects…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-19 Ming-Chien Hsu , Hsin Lin , M. Zahid Hasan , Shin-Ming Huang

When subjected to parallel electric field $\mathbf E$ and magnetic field $\mathbf B$, Weyl semimetals exhibit the exotic transport property known as the chiral anomaly due to the pumping of electrons between Weyl cones of opposite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-19 Tianyu Liu , Zheng Shi

In four dimensions Weyl fermions possess a chiral anomaly which leads to several special features in the transport phenomena, such as the negative longitudinal magnetoresistivity. In this paper, we study its inverse, the longitudinal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-04 Karl Landsteiner , Yan Liu , Ya-Wen Sun

We study the positive longitudinal magnetoconductivity (LMC) and planar Hall effect as emergent effects of the chiral anomaly in Weyl semimetals, following a recent-developed theory by integrating the Landau quantization with Boltzmann…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-08 Ming-Xun Deng , Hou-Jian Duan , Wei Luo , W. Y. Deng , Rui-Qiang Wang , L. Sheng

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

Weyl fermions can be created in materials with both time reversal and inversion symmetry by applying a magnetic field, as evidenced by recent measurements of anomalous negative magnetoresistance. Here, we do a thorough analysis of the Weyl…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-17 Jennifer Cano , Barry Bradlyn , Zhijun Wang , Max Hirschberger , N. P. Ong , B. A. Bernevig

Half-Heusler compounds from the $RE$PtBi family exemplify Weyl semimetals in which external magnetic field induce Weyl nodes. These materials exceptionally host topologically non-trivial states near the Fermi level and their manifestation…

Quantum anomalies in Weyl semimetal (for either ${\bf E}\cdot{\bf B} \neq 0$ or ${\bf \nabla}T\cdot{\bf B} \neq 0$) leads to chiral charge and energy pumping between the opposite chirality nodes. This results in chiral charge and energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-05 Kamal Das , Amit Agarwal

In this paper, we report the intercone transport of Weyl fermions in NbAs with external magnetic field in parallel to electric field, a quantum phenomenon known as the Adler-Bell-Jackiw anomaly. Surprisingly, the resulting negative…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-11 Xiaojun Yang , Yupeng Liu , Zhen Wang , Yi Zheng , Zhu-an Xu

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

We report magnetotransport study on type-II Weyl semimetal WP$_2$ single crystals. Magnetoresistance (MR) exhibits a nonsaturating $H^{n}$ field dependence (14,300\% at 2 K and 9 T) whereas systematic violation of Kohler's rule was…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-09-20 Aifeng Wang , D. Graf , Yu Liu , Qianheng Du , Jiabao Zheng , Hechang Lei , C. Petrovic

We theoretically propose that giant magnetochiral anisotropy is achieved in Weyl semimetals in noncentrosymmetric crystals as a consequence of the chiral anomaly. The magnetochiral anisotropy is the nonlinearity of the resistivity $\rho$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-04 Takahiro Morimoto , Naoto Nagaosa

We study Landau levels (LLs) of Weyl semimetal (WSM) with two adjacent Weyl nodes. We consider different orientations $\eta=\angle(\mathbf{B},\mathbf{k}_0)$ of magnetic field $\mathbf{B}$ with respect to $\mathbf{k}_0$, the vector of Weyl…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-01-24 David R. Saykin , Konstantin S. Tikhonov , Yaroslav I. Rodionov

The Weyl semimetal NbP was found to exhibit topological Fermi arcs and exotic magneto-transport properties. Here, we report on magnetic quantum-oscillation measurements on NbP and construct the 3D Fermi surface with the help of…

We study the effect of long-ranged interactions on Weyl semimetals. Such interactions can give rise to unpaired Weyl nodes, which we demonstrate by explicitly constructing a system with just a single node - a situation that is fundamentally…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-02-06 Tobias Meng , Jan Carl Budich