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arXiv 2005.10308cond-mat.mtrl-scicond-mat.mes-hall
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外尔半金属TaAs中光电流驱动的瞬态对称破缺

Photocurrent-driven transient symmetry breaking in the Weyl semimetal TaAs

N Sirica, P. P. Orth, M. S. Scheurer, Y. M. Dai, M. -C. Lee, P. Padmanabhan, L. T. Mix, S. W. Teitelbaum, M. Trigo, L. X. Zhao, G. F. Chen, B. Xu, R. Yang, B. S… 展开作者

N Sirica, P. P. Orth, M. S. Scheurer, Y. M. Dai, M. -C. Lee, P. Padmanabhan, L. T. Mix, S. W. Teitelbaum, M. Trigo, L. X. Zhao, G. F. Chen, B. Xu, R. Yang, B. Shen, C. Hu, C. -C. Lee, H. Lin, T. A. Cochran, S. A. Trugman, J. -X. Zhu, M. Z. Hasan, N. Ni, X. G. Qiu, A. J. Taylor, D. A. Yarotski, R. P. Prasankumar

摘要:

对称性在物质的常规和拓扑相中起着核心作用,使得光学驱动对称性改变的能力成为开发依赖于这种控制的未来技术的关键一步。拓扑材料,如新发现的拓扑半金属,对时间反转和晶体对称性的破坏或恢复特别敏感,这会影响体电子态和表面电子态。虽然以前的研究集中在通过耦合到晶格控制对称性,我们在这里展示了一个基于光电流产生的全电子机制。使用二次谐波产生光谱作为对称性变化的敏感探针,我们观察到飞秒光激发后的时间反转和空间对称性的超快破缺的原型I型Weyl半金属TaAs。我们的研究结果表明,光驱动的光电流可以定制,明确打破电子对称性在一个通用的方式,开辟了驱动超快的时间尺度上的电子保护状态之间的相变的可能性。

英文摘要:

Symmetry plays a central role in conventional and topological phases of matter, making the ability to optically drive symmetry change a critical step in developing future technologies that rely on such control. Topological materials, like the newly discovered topological semimetals, are particularly sensitive to a breaking or restoring of time-reversal and crystalline symmetries, which affect both bulk and surface electronic states. While previous studies have focused on controlling symmetry via coupling to the crystal lattice, we demonstrate here an all-electronic mechanism based on photocurrent generation. Using second-harmonic generation spectroscopy as a sensitive probe of symmetry change, we observe an ultrafast breaking of time-reversal and spatial symmetries following femtosecond optical excitation in the prototypical type-I Weyl semimetal TaAs. Our results show that optically driven photocurrents can be tailored to explicitly break electronic symmetry in a generic fashion, opening up the possibility of driving phase transitions between symmetry-protected states on ultrafast time scales.

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