Tunable chiral symmetry breaking in symmetric Weyl materials
Abstract
Asymmetric Weyl semimetals, which possess an inherently chiral structure, have different energies and dispersion relations for left- and right-handed fermions. They exhibit certain effects not found in symmetric Weyl semimetals, such as the quantized circular photogalvanic effect and the helical magnetic effect. In this work, we derive the conditions required for breaking chiral symmetry by applying an external field in symmetric Weyl semimetals. Here, we explicitly demonstrate that in certain materials with the Td point group, magnetic fields along low symmetry directions break the symmetry between left- and right-handed fermions; the symmetry breaking can be tuned by changing the direction and magnitude of the magnetic field. In some cases, we find an imbalance between the number of type I left- and right-handed Weyl cones (which is compensated by the number of type II cones of each chirality).
- Authors:
-
[1];
[2];
[3]
- Stony Brook Univ., NY (United States)
- Stony Brook Univ., NY (United States); Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- Stony Brook Univ., NY (United States); Flatiron Inst., New York, NY (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Stony Brook Univ., NY (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC); National Science Foundation (NSF)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1773158
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0017662; FG02-88ER40388; DMR-1942447
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review B
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 103; Journal Issue: 8; Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9950
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY
Citation Formats
Kaushik, Sahal, Philip, Evan John, and Cano, Jennifer. Tunable chiral symmetry breaking in symmetric Weyl materials. United States: N. p., 2021.
Web. doi:10.1103/physrevb.103.085106.
Kaushik, Sahal, Philip, Evan John, & Cano, Jennifer. Tunable chiral symmetry breaking in symmetric Weyl materials. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.103.085106
Kaushik, Sahal, Philip, Evan John, and Cano, Jennifer. Wed .
"Tunable chiral symmetry breaking in symmetric Weyl materials". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.103.085106. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1773158.
@article{osti_1773158,
title = {Tunable chiral symmetry breaking in symmetric Weyl materials},
author = {Kaushik, Sahal and Philip, Evan John and Cano, Jennifer},
abstractNote = {Asymmetric Weyl semimetals, which possess an inherently chiral structure, have different energies and dispersion relations for left- and right-handed fermions. They exhibit certain effects not found in symmetric Weyl semimetals, such as the quantized circular photogalvanic effect and the helical magnetic effect. In this work, we derive the conditions required for breaking chiral symmetry by applying an external field in symmetric Weyl semimetals. Here, we explicitly demonstrate that in certain materials with the Td point group, magnetic fields along low symmetry directions break the symmetry between left- and right-handed fermions; the symmetry breaking can be tuned by changing the direction and magnitude of the magnetic field. In some cases, we find an imbalance between the number of type I left- and right-handed Weyl cones (which is compensated by the number of type II cones of each chirality).},
doi = {10.1103/physrevb.103.085106},
journal = {Physical Review B},
number = 8,
volume = 103,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Feb 03 00:00:00 EST 2021},
month = {Wed Feb 03 00:00:00 EST 2021}
}
Free Publicly Available Full Text
Publisher's Version of Record
Other availability
Search WorldCat to find libraries that may hold this journal
Save to My Library
You must Sign In or Create an Account in order to save documents to your library.
Works referenced in this record:
Giant topological longitudinal circular photo-galvanic effect in the chiral multifold semimetal CoSi
journal, January 2021
- Ni, Zhuoliang; Wang, K.; Zhang, Y.
- Nature Communications, Vol. 12, Issue 1
Thermodynamic Signatures of Weyl Fermions in NbP
journal, February 2019
- Modic, K. A.; Meng, Tobias; Ronning, Filip
- Scientific Reports, Vol. 9, Issue 1
Chiral magnetic effect without chirality source in asymmetric Weyl semimetals
journal, May 2018
- Kharzeev, Dmitri E.; Kikuchi, Yuta; Meyer, René
- The European Physical Journal B, Vol. 91, Issue 5
Observation of the Chiral-Anomaly-Induced Negative Magnetoresistance in 3D Weyl Semimetal TaAs
journal, August 2015
- Huang, Xiaochun; Zhao, Lingxiao; Long, Yujia
- Physical Review X, Vol. 5, Issue 3
Giant photocurrent in asymmetric Weyl semimetals from the helical magnetic effect
journal, July 2018
- Kharzeev, Dmitri E.; Kikuchi, Yuta; Meyer, René
- Physical Review B, Vol. 98, Issue 1
Discovery of a Weyl fermion state with Fermi arcs in niobium arsenide
journal, August 2015
- Xu, Su-Yang; Alidoust, Nasser; Belopolski, Ilya
- Nature Physics, Vol. 11, Issue 9
Chiral anomaly factory: Creating Weyl fermions with a magnetic field
journal, April 2017
- Cano, Jennifer; Bradlyn, Barry; Wang, Zhijun
- Physical Review B, Vol. 95, Issue 16
Classification of stable three-dimensional Dirac semimetals with nontrivial topology
journal, September 2014
- Yang, Bohm-Jung; Nagaosa, Naoto
- Nature Communications, Vol. 5, Issue 1
True and false chirality and absolute asymmetric synthesis
journal, September 1986
- Barron, L. D.
- Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 108, Issue 18
Observation of unconventional chiral fermions with long Fermi arcs in CoSi
journal, March 2019
- Rao, Zhicheng; Li, Hang; Zhang, Tiantian
- Nature, Vol. 567, Issue 7749
Signatures of the Adler–Bell–Jackiw chiral anomaly in a Weyl fermion semimetal
journal, February 2016
- Zhang, Cheng-Long; Xu, Su-Yang; Belopolski, Ilya
- Nature Communications, Vol. 7, Issue 1
Weyl Semimetal Phase in Noncentrosymmetric Transition-Metal Monophosphides
journal, March 2015
- Weng, Hongming; Fang, Chen; Fang, Zhong
- Physical Review X, Vol. 5, Issue 1
Tunable metal-insulator transition, Rashba effect and Weyl Fermions in a relativistic charge-ordered ferroelectric oxide
journal, February 2018
- He, Jiangang; Di Sante, Domenico; Li, Ronghan
- Nature Communications, Vol. 9, Issue 1
Band parameters for III–V compound semiconductors and their alloys
journal, June 2001
- Vurgaftman, I.; Meyer, J. R.; Ram-Mohan, L. R.
- Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 89, Issue 11, p. 5815-5875
Helicity-dependent photocurrents in the chiral Weyl semimetal RhSi
journal, July 2020
- Rees, Dylan; Manna, Kaustuv; Lu, Baozhu
- Science Advances, Vol. 6, Issue 29
Helicity-protected ultrahigh mobility Weyl fermions in NbP
journal, March 2016
- Wang, Zhen; Zheng, Yi; Shen, Zhixuan
- Physical Review B, Vol. 93, Issue 12
A room-temperature ferroelectric semimetal
journal, July 2019
- Sharma, Pankaj; Xiang, Fei-Xiang; Shao, Ding-Fu
- Science Advances, Vol. 5, Issue 7
Observation of Weyl nodes in TaAs
journal, August 2015
- Lv, B. Q.; Xu, N.; Weng, H. M.
- Nature Physics, Vol. 11, Issue 9
Adler-Bell-Jackiw anomaly in Weyl semimetals: Application to pyrochlore iridates
journal, June 2012
- Aji, Vivek
- Physical Review B, Vol. 85, Issue 24
Unconventional Chiral Fermions and Large Topological Fermi Arcs in RhSi
journal, November 2017
- Chang, Guoqing; Xu, Su-Yang; Wieder, Benjamin J.
- Physical Review Letters, Vol. 119, Issue 20
Weyl semimetal phase in the non-centrosymmetric compound TaAs
journal, August 2015
- Yang, L. X.; Liu, Z. K.; Sun, Y.
- Nature Physics, Vol. 11, Issue 9
Symmetry-protected ideal Weyl semimetal in HgTe-class materials
journal, April 2016
- Ruan, Jiawei; Jian, Shao-Kai; Yao, Hong
- Nature Communications, Vol. 7, Issue 1
Chiral magnetic effect
journal, October 2008
- Fukushima, Kenji; Kharzeev, Dmitri E.; Warringa, Harmen J.
- Physical Review D, Vol. 78, Issue 7
Strong and fragile topological Dirac semimetals with higher-order Fermi arcs
journal, January 2020
- Wieder, Benjamin J.; Wang, Zhijun; Cano, Jennifer
- Nature Communications, Vol. 11, Issue 1
Evidence for the chiral anomaly in the Dirac semimetal Na3Bi
journal, September 2015
- Xiong, J.; Kushwaha, S. K.; Liang, T.
- Science, Vol. 350, Issue 6259
Negative magnetoresistance without well-defined chirality in the Weyl semimetal TaP
journal, May 2016
- Arnold, Frank; Shekhar, Chandra; Wu, Shu-Chun
- Nature Communications, Vol. 7, Issue 1
Photocurrents in Weyl semimetals
journal, January 2017
- Chan, Ching-Kit; Lindner, Netanel H.; Refael, Gil
- Physical Review B, Vol. 95, Issue 4
Systematic study of stacked square nets: From Dirac fermions to material realizations
journal, April 2020
- Klemenz, Sebastian; Schoop, Leslie; Cano, Jennifer
- Physical Review B, Vol. 101, Issue 16
Weyl and Dirac semimetals in three-dimensional solids
journal, January 2018
- Armitage, N. P.; Mele, E. J.; Vishwanath, Ashvin
- Reviews of Modern Physics, Vol. 90, Issue 1
Chiral terahertz wave emission from the Weyl semimetal TaAs
journal, February 2020
- Gao, Y.; Kaushik, S.; Philip, E. J.
- Nature Communications, Vol. 11, Issue 1
Superconductivity Provides Access to the Chiral Magnetic Effect of an Unpaired Weyl Cone
journal, May 2017
- O’Brien, T. E.; Beenakker, C. W. J.; Adagideli, İ.
- Physical Review Letters, Vol. 118, Issue 20
Giant, Level-Dependent g Factors in InSb Nanowire Quantum Dots
journal, September 2009
- Nilsson, Henrik A.; Caroff, Philippe; Thelander, Claes
- Nano Letters, Vol. 9, Issue 9
Type-II Weyl semimetals
journal, November 2015
- Soluyanov, Alexey A.; Gresch, Dominik; Wang, Zhijun
- Nature, Vol. 527, Issue 7579
Chiral Anomaly and Diffusive Magnetotransport in Weyl Metals
journal, December 2014
- Burkov, A. A.
- Physical Review Letters, Vol. 113, Issue 24
Observation of Weyl nodes and Fermi arcs in tantalum phosphide
journal, March 2016
- Xu, N.; Weng, H. M.; Lv, B. Q.
- Nature Communications, Vol. 7, Issue 1
Creating stable Floquet–Weyl semimetals by laser-driving of 3D Dirac materials
journal, January 2017
- Hübener, Hannes; Sentef, Michael A.; De Giovannini, Umberto
- Nature Communications, Vol. 8, Issue 1
Discovery of a Three-Dimensional Topological Dirac Semimetal, Na3Bi
journal, January 2014
- Liu, Z. K.; Zhou, B.; Zhang, Y.
- Science, Vol. 343, Issue 6173
Direct optical detection of Weyl fermion chirality in a topological semimetal
journal, May 2017
- Ma, Qiong; Xu, Su-Yang; Chan, Ching-Kit
- Nature Physics, Vol. 13, Issue 9
Coexistence of Type-I and Type-II Weyl Points in the Weyl-Semimetal OsC 2
journal, February 2018
- Zhang, Minping; Yang, Zongxian; Wang, Guangtao
- The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Vol. 122, Issue 6
Discovery of a Weyl fermion semimetal and topological Fermi arcs
journal, July 2015
- Xu, S. -Y.; Belopolski, I.; Alidoust, N.
- Science, Vol. 349, Issue 6248
Zeeman-splitting-induced topological nodal structure and anomalous Hall conductivity in
journal, January 2020
- Choi, Yichul; Villanova, John W.; Park, Kyungwha
- Physical Review B, Vol. 101, Issue 3
Creating Weyl nodes and controlling their energy by magnetization rotation
journal, December 2019
- Ghimire, Madhav Prasad; Facio, Jorge I.; You, Jhih-Shih
- Physical Review Research, Vol. 1, Issue 3
Anomalous Hall effect in Weyl semimetal half-Heusler compounds RPtBi (R = Gd and Nd)
journal, August 2018
- Shekhar, Chandra; Kumar, Nitesh; Grinenko, V.
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 115, Issue 37
Topological metals induced by the Zeeman effect
journal, March 2020
- Sun, Song; Song, Zhida; Weng, Hongming
- Physical Review B, Vol. 101, Issue 12
Quantized circular photogalvanic effect in Weyl semimetals
journal, July 2017
- de Juan, Fernando; Grushin, Adolfo G.; Morimoto, Takahiro
- Nature Communications, Vol. 8, Issue 1
Strain-induced chiral magnetic effect in Weyl semimetals
journal, December 2016
- Cortijo, Alberto; Kharzeev, Dmitri; Landsteiner, Karl
- Physical Review B, Vol. 94, Issue 24
Multifold nodal points in magnetic materials
journal, October 2019
- Cano, Jennifer; Bradlyn, Barry; Vergniory, M. G.
- APL Materials, Vol. 7, Issue 10
Evidence for topological type-II Weyl semimetal WTe2
journal, December 2017
- Li, Peng; Wen, Yan; He, Xin
- Nature Communications, Vol. 8, Issue 1
Chiral anomaly and classical negative magnetoresistance of Weyl metals
journal, September 2013
- Son, D. T.; Spivak, B. Z.
- Physical Review B, Vol. 88, Issue 10
The discovery of dynamic chiral anomaly in a Weyl semimetal NbAs
journal, March 2020
- Yuan, Xiang; Zhang, Cheng; Zhang, Yi
- Nature Communications, Vol. 11, Issue 1
Beyond Dirac and Weyl fermions: Unconventional quasiparticles in conventional crystals
journal, July 2016
- Bradlyn, Barry; Cano, Jennifer; Wang, Zhijun
- Science, Vol. 353, Issue 6299
Chiral magnetic effect in ZrTe5
journal, February 2016
- Li, Qiang; Kharzeev, Dmitri E.; Zhang, Cheng
- Nature Physics, Vol. 12, Issue 6
A stable three-dimensional topological Dirac semimetal Cd3As2
journal, May 2014
- Liu, Z. K.; Jiang, J.; Zhou, B.
- Nature Materials, Vol. 13, Issue 7
The chiral anomaly and thermopower of Weyl fermions in the half-Heusler GdPtBi
journal, June 2016
- Hirschberger, Max; Kushwaha, Satya; Wang, Zhijun
- Nature Materials, Vol. 15, Issue 11
Bulk Dirac Points in Distorted Spinels
journal, January 2014
- Steinberg, Julia A.; Young, Steve M.; Zaheer, Saad
- Physical Review Letters, Vol. 112, Issue 3
Topological semimetal and Fermi-arc surface states in the electronic structure of pyrochlore iridates
journal, May 2011
- Wan, Xiangang; Turner, Ari M.; Vishwanath, Ashvin
- Physical Review B, Vol. 83, Issue 20
Quantized Conductance and Large g -Factor Anisotropy in InSb Quantum Point Contacts
journal, November 2016
- Qu, Fanming; van Veen, Jasper; de Vries, Folkert K.
- Nano Letters, Vol. 16, Issue 12
A Weyl Fermion semimetal with surface Fermi arcs in the transition metal monopnictide TaAs class
journal, June 2015
- Huang, Shin-Ming; Xu, Su-Yang; Belopolski, Ilya
- Nature Communications, Vol. 6, Issue 1