Induced magneto-conductivity in a two-node Weyl semimetal under Gaussian random disorder

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/ad59fc

Abstract Measuring the magneto-conductivity induced from impurities may help determine the impurity distribution and reveal the structure of a Weyl semimetal sample. To verify this, we utilize the Gaussian random disorder to simulate charged impurities in a two-node Weyl semimetal model and investigate the impact of charged impurities on magneto-conductivity in Weyl semimetals. We first compute the longitudinal magnetic conductivity and find that it is positive and increases proportionally with the parameter governing the Gaussian distribution of charged impurities, suggesting the presence of negative longitudinal magneto-resistivity. Then we consider both the intra-valley and inter-valley scattering processes to calculate the induced transverse magneto-conductivity in the model. Our findings indicate that both inter-valley and intra-valley scattering processes play important roles in the transverse magneto-conductivity. The locations of Weyl nodes can also be determined by magneto-conductivity measurements. This is possible if the magnetic field strength and the density of charged impurities are known. Alternatively, the measurement of magnetic conductivity may reveal the distribution of charged impurities in a given sample once the locations of the Weyl nodes have been determined. These findings can aid in detecting the structure of a Weyl semimetal sample, enhancing comprehension of magnetotransport in Weyl semimetals and promoting the development of valley electronics.

Keywords: Weyl semimetal inter-valley scattering magneto-conductivity

Received: 20 December 2023
Revised: 20 May 2024
Accepted manuscript online: 20 June 2024

PACS:

75.47.-m

(Magnetotransport phenomena; materials for magnetotransport)

Fund: We would like to thank Zhengang Zhu and Zhi-Fan Zhang for useful discussions. This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61974162).

Corresponding Authors: Xuanting Ji
E-mail: jixuanting@cau.edu.cn

Cite this article:

Chuanxiong Xu(徐川雄), Haoping Yu(于昊平), Mei Zhou(周梅), and Xuanting Ji(吉轩廷) Induced magneto-conductivity in a two-node Weyl semimetal under Gaussian random disorder 2024 Chin. Phys. B 33 097502

[1] Wan X G, Turner, A M and Vishwanath A 2011 Phys. Rev. B 83 205101
[2] Weng H M, Fang C, Fang Z, Bernevig B and Dai X 2015 Phys. Rev. X5 011029
[3] Lv B Q, Weng H M, Fu B B, et al. 2015 Phys. Rev. X 5 031013
[4] Sun Y, Wu S C and Yan B H 2015 Phys. Rev. B 92 115428
[5] Yang L X, Liu Z K, Sun Y, et al. 2015 Nat. Phys. 11 728
[6] Levy A L, Sushkov A B, Liu F G, Shen B, Ni N, Drew, H D and Jenkins G S 2020 Phys. Rev. B 101 125102
[7] Borisenko S, Evtushinsky D, Gibson Q, et al. 2019 Nat. Commun. 10 3424
[8] Soluyanov A, Gresch D, Wang Z J, Wu Q S, Troyer M, Dai X and Bernevig B 2015 Nature 527 495
[9] Deng K, Wan G, Deng P, et al. 2016 Nat. Phys. 12 1105
[10] Zheng H, Bian G, Chang G Q, et al. 2016 Phys. Rev. Lett. 117 266804
[11] Li X P, Deng K, Fu B T, et al. 2021 Phys. Rev. B 103 L081402
[12] Burkov A A 2014 Phys. Rev. Lett. 113 247203
[13] Gorbar E V, Miransky V A and Shovkovy I A 2014 Phys. Rev. B 89 085126
[14] Son D T and Spivak B Z 2013 Phys. Rev. B 88 104412
[15] Nielsen H B and Ninomiya M 1983 Phys. Rev. B 130 389
[16] Zhang C L, Xu S Y, Belopolski I, et al. 2016 Nat. Commun. 7 10735
[17] Takiguchi K, Wakabayashi Y K, Irie H, et al. 2020 Nat. Commun. 11 4969
[18] Cohn I A, Zybtsev S G, Orlov A P, et al. 2020 JETP Lett. 112 88
[19] Zhang Y, Huang X L, Zhang J L, Gao W S, Zhu X D and Pi L 2022 Chin. Phys. B 31 037102
[20] Wang Z G, Fu Z G, Zhang P and Zhang W 2022 Phys. Rev. B 105 205303
[21] Kawasuso A, Suda M and Murakawa H 2023 J. Appl. Phys. 133 223903
[22] Ahmad A and Sharma G 2021 Phys. Rev. B 105 205303
[23] Zhang N, Cheng B, Li H, Li L and Zeng C G 2021 Chin. Phys. B 30 087304
[24] Wadge A S, Grabecki G, Autieri C, et al. 2022 J. Phys.: Conden. Matter 34 125601
[25] Ong N P and Liang S 2021 Nat. Rev. Phys. 3 394
[26] Kundu A, Siu Z B, Yang H and Jalil M 2020 New J. Phys. 22 083081
[27] LaBarre1 P G, Dong L, Trinh1 J, Siegrist T and Ramirez A P 2020 J. Phys.: Conden. Matter 32 02LT01
[28] Shekhar C, Nayak A, Sun Y, et al. 2015 Nat. Phys. 11 645
[29] Burkov A A and Balents L 2011 Phys. Rev. Lett. 107 127205
[30] Steiner J F, Andreev A V and Pesin D A 2017 Phys. Rev. Lett. 119 036601
[31] Pesin D A, Mishchenko E G and Levchenko A 2015 Phys. Rev. B 92 174202
[32] Klier J, Gornyi I V and Mirlin A D 2015 Phys. Rev. B 92 205113
[33] Lu H Z, Zhang S B and Shen S B 2015 Phys. Rev. B 92 045203
[34] Lu, H Z and Shen S Q 2015 Phys. Rev. B 92 035203
[35] Sbierski B, Pohl G, Bergholtz E and Brouwer P W 2014 Phys. Rev. Lett. 113 026602
[36] Aji V 2012 Phys. Rev. B 85 241101
[37] Jiang B Y, Wang L J Y, Bi R, et al. 2021 Phys. Rev. Lett. 126 236601
[38] Behrends J, Kunst F K and Sbierski B 2018 Phys. Rev. B 97 064203
[39] Yan B H and Felser C 2017 Annu. Rev. Conden. Ma. P 8 337
[40] Zhang T T, Song Z D, Alexandradinata A, et al. 2018 Phys. Rev. Lett. 120 016401
[41] Zhang S B, Lu H Z and Shen S Q 2016 New J. Phys. 18 053039
[42] Yokouchi T, Ikeda Y, Morimoto T and Shiomi Y 2023 Phys. Rev. Lett. 130 136301
[43] Yu W W, Liu Y, Fang Y, Ke X L, Liu X, Han Z D and Zhang X M 2023 Front. Phys. 11 1260872
[44] Ji X T, Lu H Z, Zhu Z G and Su G 2017 AIP Adv. 7 105003
[45] Ji X T, Lu H Z, Zhu Z G and Su G 2018 J. Appl. Phys. 123 203901
[46] Shao J M and Yan L J 2019 AIP Adv. 9 045319
[47] Feng L T, Ma T C and Zheng Y S 2020 J. Phys.: Conden. Matter 32 205502
[48] Doucot B and Pasquier V 2008 The Quantum Hall Effect (Springer) pp. 23-53
[49] Miao S P,Tu D F and Zhou J H 2023 Chin. Phys. B 32 017502
[50] Ji X T and Sun Y W 2024 Eur. Phys. J. Plus 139 485

1. .pdf(277KB)

[1]	Half-metallic ferromagnetic Weyl fermions related to dynamic correlations in the zinc-blende compound Vas Xianyong Ding(丁献勇), Haoran Wei(魏皓然), Ruixiang Zhu(朱瑞翔), Xiaoliang Xiao(肖晓亮), Xiaozhi Wu(吴小志), and Rui Wang(王锐). Chin. Phys. B, 2024, 33(9): 097103.
[2]	Evolution of anomalous Hall effect in ferromagnetic Weyl semimetal Nb_xZr_1−xCo₂Sn Bo-wen Chen(陈博文) and Bing Shen(沈冰). Chin. Phys. B, 2024, 33(8): 087501.
[3]	Photoinduced Floquet higher-order Weyl semimetal in C₆ symmetric Dirac semimetals Xin-Xin Xu(许欣欣), Zi-Ming Wang(王梓名), Dong-Hui Xu(许东辉), and Chui-Zhen Chen(陈垂针). Chin. Phys. B, 2024, 33(6): 067801.
[4]	Discovery of controllable high Chern number quantum anomalous Hall state in tetragonal lattice FeSIn Xiao-Lang Ren(任小浪) and Chang-Wen Zhang(张昌文). Chin. Phys. B, 2024, 33(6): 067102.
[5]	Symmetry transformation of nonlinear optical current of tilted Weyl nodes and application to ferromagnetic MnBi₂Te₄ Zhuo-Cheng Lu(卢倬成) and Ji Feng(冯济). Chin. Phys. B, 2024, 33(4): 047303.
[6]	Stability of the topological quantum critical point between multi-Weyl semimetal and band insulator Zhao-Kun Yang(杨兆昆), Jing-Rong Wang(王景荣), and Guo-Zhu Liu(刘国柱). Chin. Phys. B, 2023, 32(5): 056401.
[7]	Doping-enhanced robustness of anomaly-related magnetoresistance in WTe_2±α flakes Jianchao Meng(孟建超), Xinxiang Chen(陈鑫祥), Tingna Shao(邵婷娜), Mingrui Liu(刘明睿), Weimin Jiang(姜伟民), Zitao Zhang(张子涛), Changmin Xiong(熊昌民), Ruifen Dou(窦瑞芬), and Jiacai Nie(聂家财). Chin. Phys. B, 2023, 32(4): 047502.
[8]	Exploration of growth conditions of TaAs Weyl semimetal thin film using pulsed laser deposition Shien Li(李世恩), Zefeng Lin(林泽丰), Wei Hu(胡卫), Dayu Yan(闫大禹), Fucong Chen(陈赋聪), Xinbo Bai(柏欣博), Beiyi Zhu(朱北沂), Jie Yuan(袁洁), Youguo Shi(石友国), Kui Jin(金魁), Hongming Weng(翁红明), and Haizhong Guo(郭海中). Chin. Phys. B, 2023, 32(4): 047103.
[9]	Enhanced and tunable Imbert-Fedorov shift based on epsilon-near-zero response of Weyl semimetal Ji-Peng Wu(伍计鹏), Yuan-Jiang Xiang(项元江), and Xiao-Yu Dai(戴小玉). Chin. Phys. B, 2023, 32(3): 037503.
[10]	On the Onsager-Casimir reciprocal relations in a tilted Weyl semimetal Bingyan Jiang(江丙炎), Jiaji Zhao(赵嘉佶), Lujunyu Wang(王陆君瑜), Ran Bi(毕然), Juewen Fan(范珏雯), Zhilin Li(李治林), and Xiaosong Wu(吴孝松). Chin. Phys. B, 2022, 31(9): 097306.
[11]	Maximum entropy mobility spectrum analysis for the type-I Weyl semimetal TaAs Wen-Chong Li(李文充), Ling-Xiao Zhao(赵凌霄), Hai-Jun Zhao(赵海军),Gen-Fu Chen(陈根富), and Zhi-Xiang Shi(施智祥). Chin. Phys. B, 2022, 31(5): 057103.
[12]	Generalization of the theory of three-dimensional quantum Hall effect of Fermi arcs in Weyl semimetal Mingqi Chang(苌名起), Yunfeng Ge(葛云凤), and Li Sheng(盛利). Chin. Phys. B, 2022, 31(5): 057304.
[13]	High-order harmonic generations in tilted Weyl semimetals Zi-Yuan Li(李子元), Qi Li(李骐), and Zhou Li(李舟). Chin. Phys. B, 2022, 31(12): 124204.
[14]	Josephson current in an irradiated Weyl semimetal junction Han Wang(王含) and Rui Shen(沈瑞). Chin. Phys. B, 2021, 30(7): 077406.
[15]	Photoinduced Weyl semimetal phase and anomalous Hall effect in a three-dimensional topological insulator Meng-Nan Chen(陈梦南) and Wen-Chao Chen(陈文潮). Chin. Phys. B, 2021, 30(11): 110308.

[1]	WANG DA-CHUN (王大椿), DING XUN-LIANG (丁训良), YANG HUA (杨华), LUO PING-AN (罗平安). MASS ATTENUATION COEFFICIENTS FOR ELEMENTS MEASURED WITH CHARACTERISTIC X-RAYS FROM TARGETS EXCITED BY ENERGETIC PROTON[J]. Acta Physica Sinica (Overseas Edition), 1992, 1(2): 138 -148 .
[2]	WANG JIAN (王坚), WU XING-FANG (吴杏芳), FANG ZHENG-ZHI (方正知). DIFFUSIVE AGGREGATION ON ION IMPLANTED THIN FILMS[J]. Acta Physica Sinica (Overseas Edition), 1992, 1(2): 81 -85 .
[3]	ZHANG TIAN-CAI (张天才), XIE CHANG-DE (谢常德), PENG KUN-CHI (彭堃墀). A FULL QUANTUM THEORY OF THE THREE-MODE INTERACTIONS INSIDE AN OPO CAVITY[J]. Acta Physica Sinica (Overseas Edition), 1992, 1(2): 94 -103 .
[4]	PENG WEN-JI (彭文基), LI QING-XING (李庆行), YU ZHEN-XIN (余振新), AN NING (安宁), XU MAI (徐迈). STUDIES ON THE DYNAMICS OF OPTICAL BISTABILITY SWITCHING IN THE INTERNAL FABRY-PEROT CAVITY WITH A CdS_xSe_1-x-DOPED GLASS CHANNEL WAVEGUIDE[J]. Acta Physica Sinica (Overseas Edition), 1992, 1(3): 183 -190 .
[5]	CHEN ANG (陈昂), ZHI YU (智宇), LI BIAO-RONG (李标荣), ZHANG XU-LI (张绪礼), TANG CHAO-QUN (唐超群), LI XIAO-HUA (李晓华), WANG SHAO-JIE (王少阶). POSITRON ANNIHILATION STUDY OF YBa₂(Cu_1-xSn_x)₃O_y SUPERCONDUCTORS[J]. Acta Physica Sinica (Overseas Edition), 1992, 1(3): 219 -223 .
[6]	PENG YU-FENG (彭玉峰), TANG JUN-XIONG (汤俊雄), WANG QING-JI (王庆吉). STUDY OF FARADAY ANOMALOUS DISPERSION SPECTRA OF THE HYPERFINE STRUCTURE OF Rb D₂ LINES[J]. Acta Physica Sinica (Overseas Edition), 1993, 2(1): 1 -8 .
[7]	YUAN YING (袁鹰), GAO QING-DI (高庆第), QIU XIAO-MING (邱孝明), MOU ZONG-ZE (牟宗泽). EFFECTS OF BOOTSTRAP CURRENT ON ENERGY CONFINEMENT OF TOKAMAK PLASMAS[J]. Acta Physica Sinica (Overseas Edition), 1993, 2(10): 721 -730 .
[8]	TANG WEN-GUO (唐文国), GONG TAO (龚涛), LI ZI-YUAN (李自元), LIU XIANG-NA (刘湘娜), HE YU-LIANG (何宇亮). PHOTOLUMINESCENCE PROPERTIES OF NANO-SIZE CRYSTALLINE SILICON FILMS[J]. Acta Physica Sinica (Overseas Edition), 1993, 2(10): 776 -781 .
[9]	WU CHENG-PEI (吴承佩), LIU WAN-YU (刘皖育), LI XU-HUI (厉旭辉), XU KUI (徐葵), YU WEN-HAI (俞文海). STUDY ON PREPARATION OF UV CROSS-LINKING FILMS OF POLYURETHANE-LiClO₄ COMPLEXES AND THEIR IONIC CONDUCTIVITY[J]. Acta Physica Sinica (Overseas Edition), 1993, 2(11): 841 -849 .
[10]	FENG YONG (冯勇), ZHOU LIAN (周廉), WANG KE-GUANG (王克光), DU MING-HUAN (杜明焕), ZHANG YU-HENG (张裕恒), LU YA-FENG (卢亚锋), JIN XIN (金新), ZHANG YI-TONG (张贻瞳), JIN JI-RONG (金继荣), YAO XI-XIAN (姚希贤). CRITICAL CURRENT DENSITY OF Y-Ba-Cu-Sn-O SUPERCONDUCTORS[J]. Acta Physica Sinica (Overseas Edition), 1993, 2(11): 857 -862 .

Viewed

Full text

Abstract

Cited

Metrics
Related Articles

Induced magneto-conductivity in a two-node Weyl semimetal under Gaussian random disorder

Cite this article:

Online attention