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Charge density wave instabilities of type-II Weyl semimetals in a strong magnetic field

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Peer-reviewed

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Article

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Authors

Trescher, Maximilian 
Bergholtz, Emil J 
Udagawa, Masafumi 

Abstract

Shortly after the discovery of Weyl semimetals, properties related to the topology of their bulk band structure have been observed, e.g., signatures of the chiral anomaly and Fermi arc surface states. These essentially single particle phenomena are well understood, but whether interesting many-body effects due to interactions arise in Weyl systems remains much less explored. Here, we investigate the effect of interactions in a microscopic model of a type-II Weyl semimetal in a strong magnetic field. We identify a charge density wave (CDW) instability even for weak interactions stemming from the emergent nesting properties of the type-II Weyl Landau level dispersion. We map out the dependence of this CDW on magnetic field strength. Remarkably, as a function of decreasing temperature, a cascade of CDW transitions emerges and we predict characteristic signatures for experiments.

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Keywords

cond-mat.mes-hall, cond-mat.mes-hall

Journal Title

Physical Review B

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Journal ISSN

2469-9950
2469-9969

Volume Title

96

Publisher

American Physical Society
Sponsorship
European Commission Horizon 2020 (H2020) Marie Sk?odowska-Curie actions (703697)
This work was supported by Emmy Noether program (BE 5233/1-1) of the Deutsche Forschungs- gemeinschaft, the Swedish Research Council (VR), and the Wallenberg Academy Fellows program of the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. J.K. is supported by the Marie Curie Programme under EC Grant Agreement No. 703697.