TY - JOUR
T1 - Universal charge and current on magnetic domain walls in Weyl semimetals
AU - Araki, Yasufumi
AU - Yoshida, Akihide
AU - Nomura, Kentaro
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors thank O. A. Tretiakov for helpful discussions. Y.A. is supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant No. JP15H06023. K.N. is supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grants No. JP26400308 and No. JP15H05854.
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© 2016 American Physical Society.
PY - 2016/9/29
Y1 - 2016/9/29
N2 - Domain walls in three-dimensional Weyl semimetals, formed by localized magnetic moments, are investigated. There appear bound states around the domain wall with the discrete spectrum, among which we find "Fermi arc" states with the linear dispersion. The Fermi arc modes contribute to the electric charge and current localized at the domain wall, which reveal a universal behavior depending only on chemical potential and the splitting of the Weyl nodes. This equilibrium current can be traced back to the chiral magnetic effect, or the edge counterpart of the anomalous Hall effect in the bulk. We propose a way to manipulate the motion of the domain wall, accompanied with the localized charge, by applying an external electric field.
AB - Domain walls in three-dimensional Weyl semimetals, formed by localized magnetic moments, are investigated. There appear bound states around the domain wall with the discrete spectrum, among which we find "Fermi arc" states with the linear dispersion. The Fermi arc modes contribute to the electric charge and current localized at the domain wall, which reveal a universal behavior depending only on chemical potential and the splitting of the Weyl nodes. This equilibrium current can be traced back to the chiral magnetic effect, or the edge counterpart of the anomalous Hall effect in the bulk. We propose a way to manipulate the motion of the domain wall, accompanied with the localized charge, by applying an external electric field.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevB.94.115312
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevB.94.115312
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84990965182
VL - 94
JO - Physical Review B
JF - Physical Review B
SN - 2469-9950
IS - 11
M1 - 115312
ER -