Weyl orbits as probe of chiral separation effect in magnetic Weyl semimetals

Abstract

We consider magnetic Weyl semimetals. First of all we review relation of intrinsic anomalous Hall conductivity, band contribution to intrinsic magnetic moment, and the conductivity of chiral separation effect (CSE) to the topological invariants written in terms of the Wigner transformed Green functions (with effects of interaction and disorder taken into account). Next, we concentrate on the CSE. The corresponding bulk axial current is accompanied by the flow of the states in momentum space along the Fermi arcs. Together with the bulk CSE current this flow forms closed Weyl orbits. Their detection can be considered as experimental discovery of chiral separation effect. Previously it was proposed to detect Weyl orbits through the observation of quantum oscillations (Potter et al 2014 Nat. Commun. 5 5161). We propose the alternative way to detect existence of Weyl orbits through the observation of their contributions to Hall conductance.