Abstract
We theoretically investigate the transport and magnetotransport properties of three-dimensional Weyl semimetals. Using the RPA-Boltzmann transport scattering theory for electrons scattering off randomly distributed charged impurities, together with an effective medium theory to average over the resulting spatially inhomogeneous carrier density, we smoothly connect our results for the minimum conductivity near the Weyl point with known results for the conductivity at high carrier density. In the presence of a non-quantizing magnetic field, we predict that for both high and low carrier densities, Weyl semimetals show a transition from quadratic magnetoresistance (MR) at low magnetic fields to linear MR at high magnetic fields, and that the magnitude of the MR > 10 for realistic parameters. Our results are in quantitative agreement with recent unexpected experimental observations on the mixed-chalcogenide compound TlBiSSe.
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