Creating chiral anomalies

ORAL

Abstract

Materials with intrinsic Weyl points should present exotic magnetotransport phenomena due to spectral flow between Weyl nodes of opposite chirality - the so-called ``chiral anomaly''. However, to date, the most definitive transport data showing the presence of a chiral anomaly comes from Dirac (not Weyl) materials. These semimetals develop Weyl fermions only in the presence of an externally applied magnetic field, when the four-fold degeneracy is lifted. In this talk we examine Berry phase effects on transport due to the emergence of these field-induced Weyl point and (in some cases) line nodes. We pay particular attention to the differences between intrinsic and field-induced Weyl fermions, from the point of view of kinetic theory. Finally, we apply our analysis to a particular material relevant to current experiments performed at Princeton.

Authors

  • Barry Bradlyn

    • Princeton University
    • Princeton Center for Theoretical Science
  • Jennifer Cano

    • PCTS, Princeton University
    • Princeton University
    • Princeton Center for Theoretical Science
  • Zhi Jun Wang

    • Princeton University
    • Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
  • Max Hirschberger

    • Princeton University
  • N. Phuan Ong

    • Princeton University
  • B. Andrei Bernevig

    • Princeton University
    • Princeton university
    • Princeton Univ
    • Department of Physics, Princeton University