Negative differential thermal conductance between Weyl semimetals nanoparticles through vacuum

Negative differential thermal conductance through vacuum

We propose a scheme for achieving negative differential thermal conductance in near-field electromagnetic thermal transfer. As an example, we show that the scheme can be implemented with two slabs of silicon carbide brought in close proximity to each other. We also describe how a bistable thermal switch can be constructed in this manner. VC 2012 American Institute of Physics. [doi:10.1063/1.367...

Helicons in Weyl semimetals

Photocurrents in Weyl semimetals

Ching-Kit Chan,1 Netanel H. Lindner,2 Gil Refael,3 and Patrick A. Lee1 1Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA 2Physics Department, Technion, 320003 Haifa, Israel 3Institute of Quantum Information and Matter and Department of Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA (Received 13 August 2016; revised m...

Electromagnetic response of Weyl semimetals.

It has been suggested recently, based on subtle field-theoretical considerations, that the electromagnetic response of Weyl semimetals and the closely related Weyl insulators can be characterized by an axion term θE·B with space and time dependent axion angle θ(r,t). Here we construct a minimal lattice model of the Weyl medium and study its electromagnetic response by a combination of analytica...

Charge transport in Weyl semimetals.

We study transport in Weyl semimetals with N isotropic Weyl nodes in the presence of Coulomb interactions or disorder at temperature T. In the interacting clean limit, we determine the conductivity σ(ω,T) by solving a quantum Boltzmann equation within a "leading log" approximation and find it to be proportional to T, up to logarithmic factors arising from the flow of couplings. In the nonintera...