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Published February 15, 2017 | Published
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Nonlocal Coulomb drag in Weyl semimetals

Abstract

Nonlocality is one of the most striking signatures of the topological nature of Weyl semimetals. We propose to probe the nonlocality in these materials via a measurement of a magnetic-field-dependent Coulomb drag between two sheets of graphene which are separated by a three-dimensional slab of Weyl semimetal. We predict a mechanism of Coulomb drag, based on cyclotron orbits that are split between opposite surfaces of the semimetal. In the absence of impurity scattering between different Weyl nodes, this mechanism does not decay with the thickness of the semimetal.

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© 2017 American Physical Society. (Received 29 November 2016; published 23 February 2017) We thank J. Eisenstein and Y. Oreg for useful discussions. We also acknowledge support from the European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Program (Grant No. FP7/2007-2013)/ERC Project MUNATOP, the DFG (CRC/Transregio 183, Grant No. EI 519/7-1), Minerva Foundation, and the U.S.-Israel BSF. Y.B. is grateful for support from the Institute of Quantum Information and Matter.

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