Spatially dispersive circular photogalvanic effect in a Weyl semimetal
Abstract
Weyl semimetals (WSMs) are gapless topological states of matter with broken inversion and/or time reversal symmetry. WSMs can support a circulating photocurrent when illuminated by circularly polarized light at normal incidence. Here, we report a spatially dispersive circular photogalvanic effect (s-CPGE) in a WSM that occurs with a spatially varying beam profile. Our analysis shows that the s-CPGE is controlled by a symmetry selection rule combined with asymmetric carrier excitation and relaxation dynamics. By evaluating the s-CPGE for a minimal model of a WSM, a frequency-dependent scaling behaviour of the photocurrent is obtained. Wavelength-dependent measurements from the visible to mid-infrared range show evidence of Berry curvature singularities and band inversion in the s-CPGE response. Here, we present the s-CPGE as a promising spectroscopic probe for topological band properties, with the potential for controlling photoresponse by patterning optical fields on topological materials to store, manipulate and transmit information.
- Authors:
-
- Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (United States)
- Nanyang Technological Univ. (Singapore)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); Office of Naval Research MURI; US Army Research Office; Penn’s MRSEC Seed Grant
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1867033
- Grant/Contract Number:
- FG02-07ER46431; FG02-84ER45118; N00014-17-1-2661; W911NF-17-1-0436; DMR-1720530
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Nature Materials
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 18; Journal Issue: 9; Journal ID: ISSN 1476-1122
- Publisher:
- Springer Nature - Nature Publishing Group
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; 75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY; photogalvanic effect; weyl semimetal; nonlinear optics; topological matter
Citation Formats
Ji, Zhurun, Liu, Gerui, Addison, Zachariah, Liu, Wenjing, Yu, Peng, Gao, Heng, Liu, Zheng, Rappe, Andrew M., Kane, Charles L., Mele, Eugene J., and Agarwal, Ritesh. Spatially dispersive circular photogalvanic effect in a Weyl semimetal. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1038/s41563-019-0421-5.
Ji, Zhurun, Liu, Gerui, Addison, Zachariah, Liu, Wenjing, Yu, Peng, Gao, Heng, Liu, Zheng, Rappe, Andrew M., Kane, Charles L., Mele, Eugene J., & Agarwal, Ritesh. Spatially dispersive circular photogalvanic effect in a Weyl semimetal. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-019-0421-5
Ji, Zhurun, Liu, Gerui, Addison, Zachariah, Liu, Wenjing, Yu, Peng, Gao, Heng, Liu, Zheng, Rappe, Andrew M., Kane, Charles L., Mele, Eugene J., and Agarwal, Ritesh. Mon .
"Spatially dispersive circular photogalvanic effect in a Weyl semimetal". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-019-0421-5. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1867033.
@article{osti_1867033,
title = {Spatially dispersive circular photogalvanic effect in a Weyl semimetal},
author = {Ji, Zhurun and Liu, Gerui and Addison, Zachariah and Liu, Wenjing and Yu, Peng and Gao, Heng and Liu, Zheng and Rappe, Andrew M. and Kane, Charles L. and Mele, Eugene J. and Agarwal, Ritesh},
abstractNote = {Weyl semimetals (WSMs) are gapless topological states of matter with broken inversion and/or time reversal symmetry. WSMs can support a circulating photocurrent when illuminated by circularly polarized light at normal incidence. Here, we report a spatially dispersive circular photogalvanic effect (s-CPGE) in a WSM that occurs with a spatially varying beam profile. Our analysis shows that the s-CPGE is controlled by a symmetry selection rule combined with asymmetric carrier excitation and relaxation dynamics. By evaluating the s-CPGE for a minimal model of a WSM, a frequency-dependent scaling behaviour of the photocurrent is obtained. Wavelength-dependent measurements from the visible to mid-infrared range show evidence of Berry curvature singularities and band inversion in the s-CPGE response. Here, we present the s-CPGE as a promising spectroscopic probe for topological band properties, with the potential for controlling photoresponse by patterning optical fields on topological materials to store, manipulate and transmit information.},
doi = {10.1038/s41563-019-0421-5},
journal = {Nature Materials},
number = 9,
volume = 18,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Jul 15 00:00:00 EDT 2019},
month = {Mon Jul 15 00:00:00 EDT 2019}
}
Works referenced in this record:
Circular photon drag effect in bulk tellurium
journal, January 2016
- Shalygin, V. A.; Moldavskaya, M. D.; Danilov, S. N.
- Physical Review B, Vol. 93, Issue 4
Spin photocurrents in quantum wells
journal, May 2003
- Ganichev, S. D.; Prettl, W.
- Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Vol. 15, Issue 20
Quantum kinetic theory of the chiral anomaly
journal, December 2017
- Sekine, Akihiko; Culcer, Dimitrie; MacDonald, Allan H.
- Physical Review B, Vol. 96, Issue 23
QUANTUM ESPRESSO: a modular and open-source software project for quantum simulations of materials
journal, September 2009
- Giannozzi, Paolo; Baroni, Stefano; Bonini, Nicola
- Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Vol. 21, Issue 39, Article No. 395502
wannier90: A tool for obtaining maximally-localised Wannier functions
journal, May 2008
- Mostofi, Arash A.; Yates, Jonathan R.; Lee, Young-Su
- Computer Physics Communications, Vol. 178, Issue 9
Discovery of a new type of topological Weyl fermion semimetal state in MoxW1−xTe2
journal, December 2016
- Belopolski, Ilya; Sanchez, Daniel S.; Ishida, Yukiaki
- Nature Communications, Vol. 7, Issue 1
Type-II Weyl Semimetals
text, January 2015
- Soluyanov, Alexey A.; Gresch, Dominik; Wang, Zhijun
- arXiv
Experimental observation of topological Fermi arcs in type-II Weyl semimetal MoTe2
journal, September 2016
- Deng, Ke; Wan, Guoliang; Deng, Peng
- Nature Physics, Vol. 12, Issue 12
Terahertz Radiation Driven Chiral Edge Currents in Graphene
journal, December 2011
- Karch, J.; Drexler, C.; Olbrich, P.
- Physical Review Letters, Vol. 107, Issue 27
Weyl Semimetal in a Topological Insulator Multilayer
text, January 2011
- Burkov, A. A.; Balents, Leon
- arXiv
Weyl and Dirac Semimetals in Three Dimensional Solids
text, January 2017
- Armitage, N. P.; Mele, E. J.; Vishwanath, Ashvin
- arXiv
Raman signatures of inversion symmetry breaking and structural phase transition in type-II Weyl semimetal MoTe2
journal, December 2016
- Zhang, Kenan; Bao, Changhua; Gu, Qiangqiang
- Nature Communications, Vol. 7, Issue 1
Recent developments in transport phenomena in Weyl semimetals
text, January 2013
- Hosur, Pavan; Qi, Xiaoliang
- arXiv
The Berry curvature dipole in Weyl semimetal materials: an ab initio study
text, January 2017
- Zhang, Yang; Sun, Yan; Yan, Binghai
- arXiv
Anomalous Photogalvanic Effect of Circularly Polarized Light Incident on the Two-Dimensional Electron Gas in Heterostructures at Room Temperature
journal, October 2008
- He, X. W.; Shen, B.; Chen, Y. H.
- Physical Review Letters, Vol. 101, Issue 14
Maximally-localized Wannier functions for entangled energy bands
text, January 2001
- Souza, Ivo; Marzari, Nicola; Vanderbilt, David
- arXiv
Recent developments in transport phenomena in Weyl semimetals
journal, November 2013
- Hosur, Pavan; Qi, Xiaoliang
- Comptes Rendus Physique, Vol. 14, Issue 9-10
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
Photocurrents in Weyl semimetals
journal, January 2017
- Chan, Ching-Kit; Lindner, Netanel H.; Refael, Gil
- Physical Review B, Vol. 95, Issue 4
Terahertz radiation driven chiral edge currents in graphene
text, January 2011
- Karch, J.; Drexler, C.; Olbrich, P.
- arXiv
Spectroscopic evidence for a type II Weyl semimetallic state in MoTe2
journal, July 2016
- Huang, Lunan; McCormick, Timothy M.; Ochi, Masayuki
- Nature Materials, Vol. 15, Issue 11
Type-II Weyl semimetals
journal, November 2015
- Soluyanov, Alexey A.; Gresch, Dominik; Wang, Zhijun
- Nature, Vol. 527, Issue 7579
Giant anisotropic nonlinear optical response in transition metal monopnictide Weyl semimetals
journal, December 2016
- Wu, Liang; Patankar, S.; Morimoto, T.
- Nature Physics, Vol. 13, Issue 4
Raman signatures of inversion symmetry breaking and structural phase transition in type-II Weyl semimetal MoTe2
text, January 2016
- Zhang, Kenan; Bao, Changhua; Gu, Qiangqiang
- arXiv
Control over topological insulator photocurrents with light polarization
journal, December 2011
- McIver, J. W.; Hsieh, D.; Steinberg, H.
- Nature Nanotechnology, Vol. 7, Issue 2, p. 96-100
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
Berry curvature dipole in Weyl semimetal materials: An ab initio study
journal, January 2018
- Zhang, Yang; Sun, Yan; Yan, Binghai
- Physical Review B, Vol. 97, Issue 4
Voltage-tunable circular photogalvanic effect in silicon nanowires
journal, July 2015
- Dhara, S.; Mele, E. J.; Agarwal, R.
- Science, Vol. 349, Issue 6249
Spectroscopic evidence for type II Weyl semimetal state in MoTe2
text, January 2016
- Huang, Lunan; McCormick, Timothy M.; Ochi, Masayuki
- arXiv
Prediction of an arc-tunable Weyl Fermion metallic state in MoxW1−xTe2
journal, February 2016
- Chang, Tay-Rong; Xu, Su-Yang; Chang, Guoqing
- Nature Communications, Vol. 7, Issue 1
Quantum oscillations from surface Fermi arcs in Weyl and Dirac semimetals
journal, October 2014
- Potter, Andrew C.; Kimchi, Itamar; Vishwanath, Ashvin
- Nature Communications, Vol. 5, Issue 1
Photocurrents in Weyl semimetals
text, January 2016
- Chan, Ching-Kit; Lindner, Netanel H.; Refael, Gil
- arXiv
The Adler-Bell-Jackiw anomaly and Weyl fermions in a crystal
journal, November 1983
- Nielsen, H. B.; Ninomiya, Masao
- Physics Letters B, Vol. 130, Issue 6
Room-Temperature High-Frequency Transport of Dirac Fermions in Epitaxially Grown - and -Based Topological Insulators
journal, August 2014
- Olbrich, P.; Golub, L. E.; Herrmann, T.
- Physical Review Letters, Vol. 113, Issue 9
Quantized circular photogalvanic effect in Weyl semimetals
journal, July 2017
- de Juan, Fernando; Grushin, Adolfo G.; Morimoto, Takahiro
- Nature Communications, Vol. 8, Issue 1
Giant anisotropic nonlinear optical response in transition metal monopnictide Weyl semimetals
text, January 2016
- Wu, Liang; Patankar, S.; Morimoto, T.
- arXiv
Photogalvanic effect in Weyl semimetals
journal, August 2017
- König, E. J.; Xie, H. -Y.; Pesin, D. A.
- Physical Review B, Vol. 96, Issue 7
Semiclassical theory of nonlinear magneto-optical responses with applications to topological Dirac/Weyl semimetals
journal, December 2016
- Morimoto, Takahiro; Zhong, Shudan; Orenstein, Joseph
- Physical Review B, Vol. 94, Issue 24
Optimized pseudopotentials
journal, January 1990
- Rappe, Andrew M.; Rabe, Karin M.; Kaxiras, Efthimios
- Physical Review B, Vol. 41, Issue 2
Maximally localized Wannier functions for entangled energy bands
journal, December 2001
- Souza, Ivo; Marzari, Nicola; Vanderbilt, David
- Physical Review B, Vol. 65, 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
Quantum Kinetic Theory of the Chiral Anomaly
text, January 2017
- Sekine, Akihiko; Culcer, Dimitrie; MacDonald, Allan H.
- arXiv
Quantized circular photogalvanic effect in Weyl semimetals
journal, July 2017
- de Juan, Fernando; Grushin, Adolfo G.; Morimoto, Takahiro
- Nature Communications, Vol. 8, Issue 1
Giant anisotropic nonlinear optical response in transition metal monopnictide Weyl semimetals
journal, December 2016
- Wu, Liang; Patankar, S.; Morimoto, T.
- Nature Physics, Vol. 13, Issue 4
Protection induced by virus-like particles containing Toxoplasma gondii microneme protein 8 against highly virulent RH strain of Toxoplasma gondii infection
journal, April 2017
- Lee, Su-Hwa; Kim, Ah-Ra; Lee, Dong-Hun
- PLOS ONE, Vol. 12, Issue 4
Type-II Weyl Semimetals
text, January 2015
- Soluyanov, Alexey A.; Gresch, Dominik; Wang, Zhijun
- arXiv
Spin Photocurrents in Quantum Wells review part I, (part II: cond-mat/one of the next numbers)
preprint, January 2003
- Ganichev, S. D.; Prettl, W.
- arXiv
Works referencing / citing this record:
Highly polarization-sensitive, visible-blind and self-powered ultraviolet photodetection based on two-dimensional wide bandgap semiconductors: a theoretical prediction
journal, January 2019
- Luo, Yongzhi; Hu, Yibin; Xie, Yiqun
- Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Vol. 7, Issue 48
Photonic spin Hall effect on the surfaces of type-I and type-II Weyl semimetals
journal, February 2020
- Jia, Guang Yi; Huang, Zhen Xian; Ma, Qiao Yun
- Nanophotonics, Vol. 9, Issue 3
Anomalous phonon-mode dependence in polarized Raman spectroscopy of the topological Weyl semimetal TaP
journal, January 2020
- Zhang, Kunyan; Pang, Xiaoqi; Wang, Tong
- Physical Review B, Vol. 101, Issue 1
Difference frequency generation in topological semimetals
text, January 2019
- de Juan, Fernando; Zhang, Yang; Morimoto, Takahiro
- arXiv