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Finite-q photon-drag shift current in two-dimensional massive chiral Dirac fermions

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2026-05-11 v1

Abstract

We investigate the photon-drag shift current in an isotropic single-valley two-dimensional massive chiral Dirac model with chirality index J=1,2,3J=1,2,3 by directly evaluating the full finite-qq non-vertical response beyond the perturbative small-qq regime. Our central result is that chirality qualitatively reorganizes the sign topology of the finite-qq photocurrent j(q)\mathbf{ j}(\mathbf{ q}). For J=1J=1, the photocurrent remains broadly positive, whereas higher-chirality sectors (J2J \ge 2) generically develop internal zero-current contours and sign reversals within the kinematically allowed region. We further show that the photocurrent is symmetry-constrained to be purely transverse, j(q)z^×q\mathbf{j}(\mathbf{q}) \propto \hat{\mathbf{z}}\times\mathbf{q}, and vanishes in the strictly vertical-transition limit q=0q=0 in centrosymmetric systems. Pauli blocking further shapes the response by selecting the active portion of the resonance contour, while its extinction at large Δ\Delta or qq follows from a simple kinematic cutoff. These results establish the isotropic massive chiral Dirac problem as a symmetry-controlled benchmark for chirality-dependent finite-qq shift currents.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2605.07856,
  title  = {Finite-q photon-drag shift current in two-dimensional massive chiral Dirac fermions},
  author = {Rofii and Eddwi Hasdeo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.07856},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

15 pages, 5 figures

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