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We study the interaction between elliptically polarized light and a three-dimensional Luttinger semimetal with quadratic band touching using Floquet theory. In the absence of light, the touching bands can have the same or the opposite signs…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-09 Sayed Ali Akbar Ghorashi , Pavan Hosur , Chin-Sen Ting

Theory of light absorption and circular photocurrent in Weyl semimetals is developed for arbitrary large light intensities with account for both elastic and inelastic relaxation processes of Weyl fermions. The direct optical transition rate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-21 N. V. Leppenen , E. L. Ivchenko , L. E. Golub

Weyl metal is the first example of a conducting material with a nontrivial electronic structure topology, making it distinct from an ordinary metal. Unlike in insulators, the nontrivial topology is not related to invariants, associated with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-23 A. A. Burkov

Topological Weyl semimetals (WSMs) have been predicted to be excellent candidates for detecting Berry curvature dipole (BCD) and the related non-linear effects in electronics and optics due to the large Berry curvature concentrated around…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-23 Chuanchang Zeng , Snehasish Nandy , Sumanta Tewari

In this paper, a Bose-Hubbard extension of a Weyl semimetal is proposed that can be realized for ultracold atoms using laser assisted tunneling and Feshbach resonance technique in three dimensional optical lattices. The global phase diagram…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-02-27 Ya-Jie Wu , Wen-Yan Zhou , Su-Peng Kou

Here we study nonmonotonic features which appear both in magnetoresistivity and anomalous Hall resistivity during the simple magnetization process, by systematically measuring type-II magnetic Weyl semimetal EuCd$_2$Sb$_2$ films over a wide…

We apply the semiclassical theory including the Berry curvature dipole, side jumps and skew scattering for a quantitative description of the circular photogalvanic effect (CPGE) in Weyl semimetals at intraband absorption. In contrast to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-21 L. E. Golub , E. L. Ivchenko

Optical conductivity (OC) can serve as a measure of correlation effects in a wide range of condensed matter systems. We here show that the long-range tail of the Coulomb interaction yields a universal correction to the OC in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-18 Bitan Roy , Vladimir Juricic

We consider a Weyl semimetal (WSM) with finite doping and tilt within a continuum model Hamiltonian with both broken time reversal and inversion symmetry. We calculate the absorptive part of the anomalous AC Hall conductivity as a function…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-03-21 S. P. Mukherjee , J. P. Carbotte

We predict a nonlinear Hall effect in certain Weyl semimetals with broken inversion symmetry. When the energy dispersions about pairs of Weyl nodes are skewed -- the Weyl cones are "tilted" -- the concerted actions of the anomalous velocity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-19 Rui-Hao Li , Olle G. Heinonen , Anton A. Burkov , Steven S. -L. Zhang

Weyl semimetals are materials with topologically nontrivial band structure both in the bulk and on the surface, hosting chiral nodes which are sinks and sources of Berry curvature. Weyl semimetals have been predicted, and recently measured,…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-01-29 Christina A. C. Garcia , Jennifer Coulter , Prineha Narang

In time-reversal symmetry-broken Weyl semimetals, Weyl points act as monopoles and antimonopoles of the Berry curvature, with a monopole-antimonopole pair producing a net zero Berry flux. The two-dimensional (2D) planes that separate a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-29 Alexander C. Tyner , Shouvik Sur

We propose a general framework of nonlinear optics induced by non-Abelian Berry curvature in time-reversal-invariant (TRI) insulators. We find that the third-order response of a TRI insulator under optical and terahertz light fields is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-08 Fan Yang , Ren-Bao Liu

We consider the phenomenon of natural optical activity, and related chiral magnetic effect in metals with low carrier concentration. To reveal the correspondence between the two phenomena, we compute the optical conductivity of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-18 Jing Ma , D. A. Pesin

Weyl semimetals are promising quantum materials that offer unique topological properties. Lately, it has been shown that laser-driven electron dynamics have characteristic signatures in two-dimensional and three-dimensional Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-01 Amar Bharti , M. S. Mrudul , Gopal Dixit

The Weyl semimetal is characterized by three-dimensional linear band touching points called Weyl nodes. These nodes come in pairs with opposite chiralities. We show that the coupling of circularly polarized photons with these chiral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-19 Ching-Kit Chan , Patrick A. Lee , Kenneth S. Burch , Jung Hoon Han , Ying Ran

The thermoelectric transport coefficients are calculated in a generic lattice model of multi-Weyl semimetals with a broken time-reversal symmetry by using the Kubo's linear response theory. The contributions connected with the Berry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-01 E. V. Gorbar , V. A. Miransky , I. A. Shovkovy , P. O. Sukhachov

Semiconductor transistors are essential elements of electronic circuits as they enable, for example, the isolation or amplification of voltage signals. While conventional transistors are point-type (lumped-element) devices, it may be highly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-01 Tatiana G. Rappoport , Tiago A. Morgado , Sylvain Lannebère , Mário G. Silveirinha

The Weyl particle is the massless fermionic cousin of the photon. While no fundamental Weyl particles have been identified, they arise in condensed matter and meta-material systems, where their spinor nature imposes topological constraints…

Weyl semimetals possess unique electrodynamic properties due to a combination of strongly anisotropic and gyrotropic bulk conductivity, surface conductivity, and surface dipole layer. We explore the potential of popular tip-enhanced optical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-01 Qianfan Chen , Maria Erukhimova , Mikhail Tokman , Alexey Belyanin