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MA: Fachverband Magnetismus
MA 25: Topological Semimetals - Theory (joint session TT/MA)
MA 25.3: Talk
Wednesday, April 3, 2019, 10:00–10:15, H22
Chiral anomaly in Weyl semimetals within a Fermi surface harmonics approach — •Annika Johansson1,2, Jürgen Henk2, and Ingrid Mertig2,1 — 1Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Halle, Germany — 2Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany
In Weyl semimetals, external nonorthogonal magnetic and electric fields lead to nonconservation of the chiral charge, known as chiral anomaly [1-4].
This quantum phenomenon manifests itself in a negative longitudinal magnetoresistance.
Using a Fermi surface harmonics approach [5] for solving the semiclassical Boltzmann equation, we calculate transport properties of type-I Weyl semimetals, including influences of chiral anomaly, Lorentz force as well as momentum-dependent scattering. Respecting a modified phase-space volume, we identify additional contributions to the chiral charge conductivity which can change the sign of the magnetoresistance in systems with broken inversion symmetry. Considering momentum-dependent scattering modifies the energy-dependence of the transport properties.
On top of this, we show for TaAs that a misalignment of an applied magnetic field with the crystal axes can destroy the negative longitudinal magnetoresistance.
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