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Chirality-Dependent Hall Effect and Antisymmetric Magnetoresistance in a Magnetic Weyl Semimetal

Bingyan Jiang, Lujunyu Wang, Ran Bi, Juewen Fan, Jiaji Zhao, Dapeng Yu, Zheng Li, Xiaosong Wu

2021Physical Review Letters51 citationsDOI

Abstract

Weyl semimetals host a variety of exotic effects that have no counterpart in conventional materials, such as the chiral anomaly and magnetic monopole in momentum space. These effects give rise to unusual transport properties, including a negative magnetoresistance and a planar Hall effect, etc. Here, we report a new type of Hall and magnetoresistance effect in a magnetic Weyl semimetal. Unlike antisymmetric (with respect to either magnetic field or magnetization) Hall and symmetric magnetoresistance in conventional materials, the discovered magnetoresistance and Hall effect are antisymmetric in both magnetic field and magnetization. We show that the Berry curvature, the tilt of the Weyl node, and the chiral anomaly synergically produce these phenomena. Our results reveal a unique property of Weyl semimetals with broken time reversal symmetry.

Topics & Concepts

Berry connection and curvatureWeyl semimetalMagnetoresistanceCondensed matter physicsPhysicsChiral anomalyHall effectMagnetizationThermal Hall effectAntisymmetric relationMagnetic fieldSemimetalQuantum mechanicsFermionGeometric phaseBand gapMathematical physicsTopological Materials and PhenomenaGraphene research and applicationsMagnetic properties of thin films