Singular nonlinear response in metals due to divergent Berry curvature: application to magneto-resistance in metals with type-II Weyl nodes
arXiv:1807.08147 · doi:10.1038/s41598-019-51846-x
Abstract
The physical properties of metals are often given by the sum of the contributions from the electrons consisting the Fermi surface (FS), and therefore, fine structures of the electronic bands and Bloch functions are often masked by the integral over FS. As a consequence, usually, the singular structures in the electronic bands are often not reflected to the macroscopic quantities. In this work, we investigate the anomaly-related magnetoresistance in metals with type-II Weyl nodes close to the FS, and find that the anomaly-related current increases divergently, showing a singular structure. Detailed analysis on a simple model with multiple Weyl nodes shows that the contribution to the magnetoresistance is dominated by the electrons in the vicinity of the Weyl nodes; this is related to the fact that the current is given by the square of the Berry curvature, which enhances the contribution from the electrons around the Weyl nodes. The above results potentially allows an estimate of the anomaly-induced current without precise information of the entire Band structure.
5 pages, 3 figures
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