Effects of anisotropy and disorder on the conductivity of Weyl semimetals
2015
We study dc conductivity of a Weyl semimetal with uniaxial anisotropy (Fermi velocity ratio $\xi= v_\bot/v_\parallel\neq1$) considering the scattering of charge carriers by a wide class of impurity potentials, both short- and long-range. We obtain the ratio of transverse and longitudinal (with respect to the anisotropy axis) conductivities as a function of both $\xi$ and temperature. We find that the transverse and longitudinal conductivities exhibit different temperature dependence in the case of short-range disorder. For general long-range disorder, the temperature dependence ($\sim T^4$) of the conductivity turns out to be insensitive of the anisotropy in the limits of strong ($\xi\gg$ and $\ll1$) and weak ($\xi\approx1$) anisotropy.
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