When Chiral Photons Meet Chiral Fermions: Photoinduced Anomalous Hall Effects in Weyl Semimetals
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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 electrons generates a Hall conductivity without any applied magnetic field in the plane orthogonal to the light propagation. This phenomenon comes about because with all three Pauli matrices exhausted to form the three-dimensional linear dispersion, the Weyl nodes cannot be gapped. Rather, the net influence of chiral photons is to shift the positions of the Weyl nodes. Interestingly, the momentum shift is tightly correlated with the chirality of the node to produce a net anomalous Hall signal. Application of our proposal to the recently discovered TaAs family of Weyl semimetals leads to an order-of-magnitude estimate of the photoinduced Hall conductivity which is within the experimentally accessible range.
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- Authors
- Chan, C.-K., Lee, P. A., Burch, K. S., Han, J. H., & Ran, Y.
- Affiliations
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US)
- Boston College (US)
- Sungkyunkwan University (KR)
- Venue
- Physical Review Letters
- Publisher
- American Physical Society (APS)
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- 2016-01-15
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- 116
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- 2
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- 026805-026805
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- 0031-9007 (ISSN-L)
- 1079-7114
- OpenAlex
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- Funders
- U.S. Department of Energy (DE-FG02-03- ER46076)
- National Science Foundation (DMR-1410846, DMR-1151440)
- National Research Foundation of Korea (2013R1A2A1A01006430)
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Topological Materials and Phenomena
- Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Materials Chemistry › 2D Materials and Applications
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Condensed Matter Physics › Advanced Condensed Matter Physics
- Keywords
- Weyl semimetals, circularly polarized light, Weyl points, chiral fermions, Hall conductivity, thoracic aortic aneurysm, topological photonics
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