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Chiral Electromagnetic Waves in Weyl Semimetal

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2016-01-05 v3

Abstract

We show that Weyl semimetals with broken time-reversal symmetry can host chiral electromag- netic waves. The magnetization that results in a momentum space separation of a pair of opposite chirality Weyl nodes is also responsible for the non-zero gyrotropy parameter in the system. It is then shown that a chiral electromagnetic wave can propagate in a region of space where the gyrotropy parameter changes sign. Such waves are analogs of quantum Hall edge states for photons.

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@article{arxiv.1410.2704,
  title  = {Chiral Electromagnetic Waves in Weyl Semimetal},
  author = {A. A. Zyuzin and V. A. Zyuzin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.2704},
  year   = {2016}
}

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4 pages and 1 figure

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