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Detect Axial Gauge Fields with a Calorimeter

by Matteo Baggioli, Maxim N. Chernodub, Karl Landsteiner, Maria A. H. Vozmediano

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Authors (as registered SciPost users): Matteo Baggioli · Karl Landsteiner · Maria Vozmediano
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Preprint Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.02473v2  (pdf)
Date accepted: 2020-11-24
Date submitted: 2020-11-09 13:00
Submitted by: Baggioli, Matteo
Submitted to: SciPost Physics Core
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Academic field: Physics
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  • Condensed Matter Physics - Theory
Approach: Theoretical

Abstract

Torsional strain in Weyl semimetals excites a unidirectional chiral density wave propagating in the direction of the torsional vector. This gapless excitation, named the chiral sound wave, is generated by a particular realization of the axial anomaly via the triple-axial (AAA) anomalous diagram. We show that the presence of the torsion-generated chiral sound leads to a linear behavior of the specific heat of a Weyl semimetal and to an enhancement of the thermal conductivty at experimentally accessible temperatures. We also demonstrate that such an elastic twist lowers the temperature of the sample, thus generating a new, anomalous type of elasto-calorific effect. Measurements of these thermodynamical effects will provide experimental verification of the exotic triple-axial anomaly as well as the reality of the elastic pseudomagnetic fields in Weyl semimetals.

Published as SciPost Phys. Core 3, 013 (2020)


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