title: Chiral tunneling in gated inversion symmetric Weyl semimetal.
abstract: Based on the chirality-resolved transfer-matrix method, we evaluate the chiral transport tunneling through Weyl semimetal multi-barrier structures created by periodic gates. It is shown that, in sharp contrast to the cases of three dimensional normal semimetals, the tunneling coefficient as a function of incident angle shows a strong anisotropic behavior. Importantly, the tunneling coefficients display an interesting periodic oscillation as a function of the crystallographic angle of the structures. With the increasement of the barriers, the tunneling current shows a Fabry-Perot type interferences. For superlattice structures, the fancy miniband effect has been revealed. Our results show that the angular dependence of the first bandgap can be reduced into a Lorentz formula. The disorder suppresses the oscillation of the tunneling conductance, but would not affect its average amplitude. This is in sharp contrast to that in multi-barrier conventional semiconductor structures. Moreover, numerical results for the dependence of the angularly averaged conductance on the incident energy and the structure parameters are presented and contrasted with those in two dimensional relativistic materials. Our work suggests that the gated Weyl semimetal opens a possible new route to access to new type nanoelectronic device.
authors.affiliation: SKLSM, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100083, People's Republic of China.|School of Physics, Anyang Normal University, Anyang 455000, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Chunxu
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bai
authors.affiliation: School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Yanling
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.affiliation: SKLSM, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100083, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Kai
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Chang