Recent developments in transport phenomena in Weyl semimetals

Comptes Rendus Physique

Volumn 14, Issue 9-10, 2013, Pages 857-870

  Hosur, Pavan ^a   Qi, Xiaoliang ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chiral anomaly; Chiral transport; Dirac semimetal; Fermi arc; Weyl semimetal

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889572018     PISSN: 16310705     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crhy.2013.10.010     Document Type: Short Survey

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