Nature Communications (Mar 2020)
The discovery of dynamic chiral anomaly in a Weyl semimetal NbAs
- Xiang Yuan,
- Cheng Zhang,
- Yi Zhang,
- Zhongbo Yan,
- Tairu Lyu,
- Mengyao Zhang,
- Zhilin Li,
- Chaoyu Song,
- Minhao Zhao,
- Pengliang Leng,
- Mykhaylo Ozerov,
- Xiaolong Chen,
- Nanlin Wang,
- Yi Shi,
- Hugen Yan,
- Faxian Xiu
Affiliations
- Xiang Yuan
- State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics and Department of Physics, Fudan University
- Cheng Zhang
- State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics and Department of Physics, Fudan University
- Yi Zhang
- Department of Physics, Cornell University
- Zhongbo Yan
- School of Physics, Sun Yat-sen University
- Tairu Lyu
- Department of Physics, University of California at Berkeley
- Mengyao Zhang
- International Center for Quantum Materials, School of Physics, Peking University
- Zhilin Li
- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Chaoyu Song
- State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics and Department of Physics, Fudan University
- Minhao Zhao
- State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics and Department of Physics, Fudan University
- Pengliang Leng
- State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics and Department of Physics, Fudan University
- Mykhaylo Ozerov
- National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University
- Xiaolong Chen
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter
- Nanlin Wang
- International Center for Quantum Materials, School of Physics, Peking University
- Yi Shi
- National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, School of Physics, Nanjing University
- Hugen Yan
- State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics and Department of Physics, Fudan University
- Faxian Xiu
- State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics and Department of Physics, Fudan University
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14749-4
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 11,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 7
Abstract
Unique electronmagnetic response of Weyl semimetals have only been reported in static field regime. Here, the authors report evidence of a dynamical chiral anomaly response realized by internal collective lattice deformation with an external static magnetic field in a Weyl semimetal NbAs.
