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Three-dimensional chiral Veselago lensing

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2022-04-26 v2

Abstract

The effect by which light focuses upon entering a medium with a negative refractive index, known as Veselago lensing, may enable optical imaging below the diffraction limit. Similarly, focusing electrons across a pnpn-junction could realize a technologically promising electronic Veselago lens. However, its scope remains limited by the lack of three-dimensional platforms and its insensitivity to computational degrees of freedom, like spin or chirality. Here we propose a single-material three-dimensional electronic Veselago lens that selectively focuses electrons of a given chirality. Using the chiral anomaly of topological semimetals it is possible to create a sharp pnpn-junction for a single chirality, a chiral Veselago lens, and tune it with a magnetic field to an ideal lensing condition. We estimate that chiral Veselago lensing is observable in non-local transport and spectroscopy experiments. In particular we show that the chiral Veselago lens leads to giant non-local magnetoresistance.

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@article{arxiv.2108.09261,
  title  = {Three-dimensional chiral Veselago lensing},
  author = {Serguei Tchoumakov and Jérôme Cayssol and Adolfo G. Grushin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.09261},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

5 pages, 3 figures ; supplementary material included

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