Chiral vortical effect in Weyl semimetals

doi:10.7523/j.issn.2095-6134.2019.05.004

Abstract

Abstract: As the experiments indicate, not only the chiral anomaly but also the gravitational anomaly exist in Weyl semimetal. Gravitational anomaly induces the chiral vortical effect. Hence it is necessary to study the chiral vortical effect in Weyl semimetal. Furthermore, due to the analogy to the graphene, Weyl semimetal may also suffer strong coupling. Based on this, we study the chiral vortical conductivity in a strong coupling Weyl semimetal by AdS/CFT. Under the circumstance where only gravitational anomaly is considered, we obtain the conclusions as follows. 1)Gravitational anomaly induces the chiral vortical effect, which exists in the Weyl semimetal equipped with the chiral fermions, and it is proportional to the coupling strength. 2)Chiral vortical conductivity is proportional to square of temperature.

Key words: Weyl semimetal, chiral anomaly, gravitational anomaly, chiral vortical effect

CLC Number:

O412
O469

JI Xuanting, ZHU Zhen. Chiral vortical effect in Weyl semimetals[J]. , 2019, 36(5): 598-604.

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