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Quantized circular photogalvanic effect in Weyl semimetals

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  • Fernando de Juan

    (University of California
    Instituto Madrileño de Estudios Avanzados en Nanociencia (IMDEA-Nanociencia)
    Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics)

  • Adolfo G. Grushin

    (University of California)

  • Takahiro Morimoto

    (University of California)

  • Joel E Moore

    (University of California
    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

Abstract

The circular photogalvanic effect (CPGE) is the part of a photocurrent that switches depending on the sense of circular polarization of the incident light. It has been consistently observed in systems without inversion symmetry and depends on non-universal material details. Here we find that in a class of Weyl semimetals (for example, SrSi2) and three-dimensional Rashba materials (for example, doped Te) without inversion and mirror symmetries, the injection contribution to the CPGE trace is effectively quantized in terms of the fundamental constants e, h, c and with no material-dependent parameters. This is so because the CPGE directly measures the topological charge of Weyl points, and non-quantized corrections from disorder and additional bands can be small over a significant range of incident frequencies. Moreover, the magnitude of the CPGE induced by a Weyl node is relatively large, which enables the direct detection of the monopole charge with current techniques.

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  • Fernando de Juan & Adolfo G. Grushin & Takahiro Morimoto & Joel E Moore, 2017. "Quantized circular photogalvanic effect in Weyl semimetals," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 8(1), pages 1-7, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:8:y:2017:i:1:d:10.1038_ncomms15995
    DOI: 10.1038/ncomms15995
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