Tracking Ultrafast Photocurrents in the Weyl Semimetal TaAs Using THz Emission Spectroscopy
- Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Univ. of Groningen (Netherlands). Zernike Inst. for Advanced Materials
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing (China). Inst. of Physics
- Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy. California NanoSystems Inst.
- Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Nanjing Univ. (China). School of Physics
We investigate here polarization-dependent ultrafast photocurrents in the Weyl semimetal TaAs using terahertz (THz) emission spectroscopy. Our results reveal that highly directional, transient photocurrents are generated along the noncentrosymmetric c axis regardless of incident light polarization, while helicity-dependent photocurrents are excited within the ab plane. This is consistent with earlier static photocurrent experiments, and demonstrates on the basis of both the physical constraints imposed by symmetry and the temporal dynamics intrinsic to current generation and decay that optically induced photocurrents in TaAs are inherent to the underlying crystal symmetry of the transition metal monopnictide family of Weyl semimetals.
- Research Organization:
- Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) (United States). Center for the Advancement of Topological Semimetals (CATS); Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- Grant/Contract Number:
- 89233218CNA000001; AC02-07CH11358; SC0011978
- OSTI ID:
- 1542840
- Alternate ID(s):
- OSTI ID: 1512837
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR-18-26789
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review Letters, Vol. 122, Issue 19; ISSN 0031-9007
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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