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Anomalous skew scattering of plasmons in a Dirac electron fluid

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2025-04-22 v2

Abstract

The Berry phase-related nontrivial electronic band geometries can significantly influence bulk and edge plasmons resulting in their non-reciprocal propagation and opening new opportunities for plasmonics. In the present work, we extend the hydrodynamic framework to describe the scattering of plasmons in a Dirac electron fluid off a circular region with an induced nonzero anomalous Hall response, i.e. a Berry flux target. We demonstrate that the scattering has a giant asymmetry or skewness and exhibits a series of resonances. The latter appears due to a chiral non-topological trapped mode circulating the target. We discuss possible experimental realizations, including the surface of a topological insulator film and graphene irradiated by the circularly polarized beam.

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@article{arxiv.2501.01566,
  title  = {Anomalous skew scattering of plasmons in a Dirac electron fluid},
  author = {Cooper Finnigan and Dmitry K. Efimkin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.01566},
  year   = {2025}
}

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11 pages, 6 figures