Observation of the Adler-Bell-Jackiw chiral anomaly in a Weyl semimetal

2015/03/09 by Chenglong Zhang, Zhang, Chenglong, Su‐Yang Xu +37 · 11 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Condensed Matter Physics #Quantum many-body systems #Topological Materials and Phenomena #cond-mat.mes-hall #hep-ex

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1503.02630

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arxiv created 2015/03/09 · arxiv updated 2015/03/10

Abstract

We report the experimental discovery of Adler-Bell-Jackiw chiral anomaly in a Weyl semimetal crystal.

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