Anomalous Surface Conductivity of Weyl Semimetals
arXiv:2112.14170 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.106.245410
Abstract
We calculate the surface dc conductivity of Weyl semimetals and show that it contains an anomalous contribution in addition to a Drude contribution from the Fermi arc. The anomalous part is independent of the surface scattering time, and appears at nonzero temperature and doping (away from the Weyl nodes), increasing quadratically with both with a universal ratio of coefficients. Microscopically, it results from the contribution of the gapless bulk to the surface conductivity. We argue that this can be interpreted as the conductivity of an effective interacting surface fluid that coexists with the Fermi arc metal. In a certain regime of low temperatures, the temperature dependence of the surface conductivity is dominated by the anomalous response, which can be probed experimentally to unravel the unusual behavior.
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