Revisiting magnetotransport in Weyl semimetals

Abstract

A series of recent papers have claimed that intranode scattering, alone, can contribute to positive longitudinal magnetoconductance (LMC) due to chiral anomaly (CA) in Weyl semimetals (WSMs). We revisit the problem of CA induced LMC in WSMs, and show that intranode scattering, by itself, does not result in enhancement of LMC. In the limit of zero internode scattering, chiral charge must remain conserved, which is shown to actually decrease LMC. Only in the presence of a non-zero internode scattering (however weak), one obtains a positive LMC due to non-conservation of chiral charge. Even weak internode scattering suffices in generating positive LMC, since it redistributes charges across both the nodes, although on a time scale larger than that of the intranode scattering. Furthermore, our calculations reveal that, in contrast to recent works, in inhomogeneous WSMs strain induced axial magnetic field $B_5$, by itself, leads to negative longitudinal magnetoconductance and a negative planar Hall conductance.

arXiv comment5 pages, 6 figures

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