Chiral anomaly and internode scatterings in multifold semimetals

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2411.18434v1
• Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2024 15:17:26 GMT
• Title: Chiral anomaly and internode scatterings in multifold semimetals
• Authors: Ipsita Mandal,
• Abstract summary: In the Brillouin zone (BZ), the sign of the Berry-curvature field's monopole charge is referred to as the chirality ($chi$) of the node. Here, we derive the generic form of the chiral conductivity when we have multifold nodes.
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• Abstract: In our quest to unravel the topological properties of nodal points in three-dimensional semimetals, one hallmark property which warrants our attention is the chiral anomaly. In the Brillouin zone (BZ), the sign of the Berry-curvature field's monopole charge is referred to as the chirality ($\chi$) of the node, leading to the notion of chiral quasiparticles sourcing chiral currents, induced by internode scatterings proportional to the chiral anomaly. Here, we derive the generic form of the chiral conductivity when we have multifold nodes. Since the sum of all the monopole charges in the BZ are constrained to vanish, the nodes appear in pairs of $\chi =\pm 1$. Hence, the presence of band-crossing degeneracies of order higher than two make it possible to have two distinct scenarios -- the pair of conjugate nodes in question comprise bands of the same pseudospin variety or of two distinct pseudospin-representations. Covering these two possibilities, we apply our derived formula to semimetals harbouring triple-point (threefold-degenerate) and Rarita-Schwinger-Weyl (fourfold-degenerate) nodes, and show the resulting expressions for the conductivity featuring the chiral anomaly.

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