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Competition between the inter-valley scattering and the intra-valley scattering on magnetoconductivity induced by screened Coulomb disorder in Weyl semimetals
Recent experiments on Weyl semimetals reveal that charged impurities may play
an important role. We use a screened Coulomb disorder to model the charged
impurities, and study the magneto-transport in a two-node Weyl semimetal. It is
found that when the external magnetic field is applied parallel to the electric
field, the calculated longitudinal magnetoconductivity shows positive in the
magnetic field, which is just the negative longitudinal magnetoresistivity
(LMR) observed in experiments. When the two fields are perpendicular to each
other, the transverse magnetoconductivities are measured. It is found that the
longitudinal (transverse) magnetoconductivity is suppressed (enhanced)
sensitively with increasing the screening length. This feature makes it hardly
to observe the negative LMR in Weyl semimetals experimentally owing to a small
screening length. Our findings gain insight into further understanding on
recently actively debated magneto-transport behaviors in Weyl semimetals.
Furthermore we studied the relative weight of the inter-valley scattering and
the intra-valley scattering. It shows that the former is as important as the
latter and even dominates in the case of strong magnetic fields and small
screening length. We emphasize that the discussions on inter-valley scattering
is out of the realm of one-node model which has been studied.Comment: 14 pages, 5 figure
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