articlePhysical Review BSep 13, 2013GREEN OA

Chiral anomaly and classical negative magnetoresistance of Weyl metals

University of Chicago · University of Washington

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Abstract

We consider the classical magnetoresistance of a Weyl metal in which the electron Fermi surface possesses nonzero fluxes of the Berry curvature. Such a system may exhibit large negative magnetoresistance with unusual anisotropy as a function of the angle between the electric and magnetic fields. In this case the system can support an additional type of plasma wave. These phenomena are consequences of the chiral anomaly in electron transport theory.

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Keywords
  • Magnetoresistance
  • Chiral anomaly
  • Berry connection and curvature
  • Condensed matter physics
  • Anomaly (physics)
  • Physics
  • Electron
  • Fermi surface
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