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

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14749-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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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.