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arxiv: 1711.00684 · v1 · pith:VJWNQUM3new · submitted 2017-11-02 · ⚛️ physics.app-ph · cond-mat.mes-hall

Landau levels with magnetic tunnelling in Weyl semimetal and magnetoconductance of ballistic p-n junction

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We study Landau levels (LLs) of Weyl semimetal (WSM) with two adjacent Weyl nodes. We consider different orientations $\eta=\angle(\mathbf{B},\mathbf{k}_0)$ of magnetic field $\mathbf{B}$ with respect to $\mathbf{k}_0$, the vector of Weyl nodes splitting. Magnetic field facilitates the tunneling between the nodes giving rise to a gap in the transverse energy of the zeroth LL. We show how the spectrum is rearranged at different $\eta$ and how this manifests itself in the change of behavior of differential magnetoconductance $dG(B)/dB$ of a ballistic $p$-$n$ junction. Unlike the single-cone model where Klein tunneling reveals itself in positive $dG(B)/dB$, in the two-cone case $G(B)$ is non-monotonic with maximum at $B_c \propto \Phi_0k_0^2/\ln(k_0l_E)$ for large $k_0l_E$, where $l_E=\sqrt{\hbar v/|e|E}$ with $E$ for built in electric field and $\Phi_0$ for magnetic flux quantum.

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