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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