Lorentz-boost-driven magneto-optics in a Dirac nodal-line semimetal
Abstract
Optical response of crystalline solids is to a large extent driven by excitations that promote electrons among individual bands. This allows one to apply optical and magneto-optical methods to determine experimentally the energy band gap - a fundamental property crucial to our understanding of any solid - with a great precision. Here we show that such conventional methods, applied with great success to many materials in the past, do not work in topological Dirac semimetals with a dispersive nodal line. There, the optically deduced band gap depends on how the magnetic field is oriented with respect to the crystal axes. Such highly unusual behaviour is explained in terms of band-gap renormalization driven by Lorentz boosts.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2110.07266,
title = {Lorentz-boost-driven magneto-optics in a Dirac nodal-line semimetal},
author = {J. Wyzula and X. Lu and D. Santos-Cottin and D. K. Mukherjee and I. Mohelsky and F. Le Mardele and J. Novak and M. Novak and R. Sankar and Y. Krupko and B. A. Piot and W. -L. Lee and A. Akrap and M. Potemski and M. O. Goerbig and M. Orlita},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.07266},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
9 pages, 3 figures + supplementary materials