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线偏振光在对称Weyl半金属中诱导的横向手征磁光电流

Transverse Chiral Magnetic Photocurrent Induced by Linearly Polarized Light in Mirror-Symmetric Weyl Semimetals

Sahal Kaushik, Dmitri E. Kharzeev, Evan John Philip

摘要:

一类新的光电流被预测发生在I型和II型外尔半金属。与先前研究的手性材料中的光电流不同,所提出的电流既不需要圆偏振光,也不需要相对于反射平面对称。我们表明,如果Weyl半金属有一个破缺的反转对称性,然后线偏振光可以诱导一个光电流横向的方向上施加的磁场,尽管相对于反射平面的对称性和时间反演对称性。我们期望发生这种情况的材料种类足够广泛,包括过渡金属铌酸盐,如TaAs。这种效应源于外尔手征准粒子在磁场中的动力学,受到上述对称性的限制;因为产生的电流横向于磁场的方向,我们称之为横向手征磁光电流。由此产生的光电流的幅度预测是显着的太赫兹频率范围内,约$0.75\; \mathrm{μA}$的I型和$2.5\; \mathrm{μA}$的II型外尔半金属。这打开了利用预测的横向手征磁光电流感测非偏振太赫兹辐射的可能性。

英文摘要:

A new class of photocurrents is predicted to occur in both type-I and type-II Weyl semimetals. Unlike the previously studied photocurrents in chiral materials, the proposed current requires neither circularly polarized light, nor an absence of symmetry with respect to a plane of reflection. We show that if a Weyl semimetal has a broken inversion symmetry then linearly polarized light can induce a photocurrent transverse to the direction of an applied magnetic field, in spite of the symmetry with respect to a reflection plane and the time reversal symmetry. The class of materials in which we expect this to occur is sufficiently broad and includes the transition metal monopnictides such as TaAs. The effect stems from the dynamics of Weyl chiral quasi-particles in a magnetic field, restricted by the symmetries described above; because the resulting current is transverse to the direction of magnetic field, we call it the transverse chiral magnetic photocurrent. The magnitude of the resulting photocurrent is predicted to be significant in the THz frequency range, about $0.75\; \mathrm{μA}$ for type-I and $2.5\; \mathrm{μA}$ for type-II Weyl semimetals. This opens the possibility to utilize the predicted transverse chiral magnetic photocurrent for sensing unpolarized THz radiation.

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