Effects of anisotropy and disorder on the conductivity of Weyl semimetals

We study dc conductivity of a Weyl semimetal with uniaxial anisotropy (Fermi velocity ratio $xi= v_bot/v_parallel eq1$) 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 ($xigg$ and $ll1$) and weak ($xiapprox1$) anisotropy.