Probing the chiral anomaly with nonlocal transport in three-dimensional topological semimetals

Physical Review X

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Parameswaran, S A ^a,b   Grover, T ^c   Abanin, D A ^d,e   Pesin, D A ^f,g   Vishwanath, A ^a,h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d PERIMETER INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^g California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^h LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHIRALITY; CRYSTAL SYMMETRY; ELECTRIC FIELDS; LANDFORMS; MAGNETIC FIELDS;

BRILLOUIN ZONES; CRYSTALLINE SYSTEMS; INJECTED CURRENT; LOCAL MAGNETIC FIELD; MOMENTUM SPACES; NONLOCAL TRANSPORT; SOURCE AND DRAINS; TOPOLOGICAL CHARGES;

TOPOLOGY;

EID: 84907238767     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21603308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.4.031035     Document Type: Article

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