Chiral gauge field and axial anomaly in a Weyl semimetal

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 87, Issue 23, 2013, Pages

  Liu, Chao Xing ^a   Ye, Peng ^b,c   Qi, Xiao Liang ^d  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PERIMETER INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Canada)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84879015842     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.87.235306     Document Type: Article

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