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Quantized nonlinear Hall effect from chiral monopole

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2024-11-12 v3 Materials Science

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 e3/2e^3/\hbar^2 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.

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@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}
}

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4+4 pages, 3 figures

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