Scaling of the chiral magnetic effect in quantum diffusive Weyl semimetals
arXiv:1806.01557 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.97.245121
Abstract
We investigate the effect of short-range spin-independent disorder on the chiral magnetic effect (CME) in Weyl semimetals. Based on a minimum two-band model, the disorder effect is examined in the quantum diffusion limit by including the Drude correction and the correction due to the Cooperon channel. It is shown that the Drude correction renormalizes the CME coefficient by a factor to a finite value that is independent of the system size. Furthemore, due to an additional momentum expansion involved in deriving the CME coefficient, the contribution of Cooperon to the CME coefficient is governed by the quartic momentum term. As a result, in contrast to the weak localization and weak anti-localization effects observed in the measurement of conductivity of Dirac fermions, we find that in the limit of zero magnetic field, the CME coefficients of finite systems manifest the same scaling of localization even in three dimension. Our results indicate that while the chiral magnetic current due to slowly oscillating magnetic fields can exist in clean systems, its observability will be limited by suppression due to short-range disorder in condensed matters.
13 pages, 4 figure, to appear in Phys. Rev. B
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