Quantized nonlinear Hall effect from chiral monopole
Abstract
Nonlinear Hall effect arises in materials without inversion symmetry, and the intrinsic contribution is typically from Berry curvature dipole of non-universal Fermi pockets. Here we propose that nonlinear Hall effect can reach quantization in chiral Weyl semimetals without mirror symmetries. The energy shift between a pair of Weyl nodes leads to chirally asymmetric intra-node relaxation, and the net trace of nonlinear Hall conductivity is thus quantized in units of and determined by sum of monopole charge weighted by the transport relaxation time. Our theory also applies to mirror symmetric Weyl/Dirac semimetals with chiral anomaly. Additionally, besides DC transport probes, we anticipate that nonlinear circular dichroism measurements could detect chiral asymmetry-induced currents.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2312.17690,
title = {Quantized nonlinear Hall effect from chiral monopole},
author = {Nikolai Peshcherenko and Claudia Felser and Yang Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.17690},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
4+4 pages, 3 figures