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Topological valley pumping in Weyl semimetals
摘要： We investigate the topological pumping effect in Weyl semimetals, subject to the modulation of two ac electric fields along y and z directions, respectively. We show that the pumping effect originates from the anomalous velocity related to the Berry curvature. The direction of the pumping current is dependent on the chirality of the Weyl fermions. While the total particle current is vanishing because the Weyl points of opposite chirality always come in pairs in Weyl semimetals, the pump gives rise to a net chirality current or valley current. The noiseless valley current generated can be useful in valleytronic applications.
关键词： Valleytronics,Chirality,Topological pumping effect,Valley current,Weyl semimetal
更新于2025-09-23 15:23:52
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Importance of electron correlations in understanding photoelectron spectroscopy and Weyl character of
摘要： We study the role of electron correlations in the presumed type-II Weyl semimetallic candidate γ-MoTe2 by employing density functional theory (DFT) where the on-site Coulomb repulsion (Hubbard U) for the Mo 4d states is included within the DFT+U scheme. We show that pure DFT calculations fail to describe important features of the light-polarization dependence of the angular resolved photoemission intensity which can be accounted for by including the role of the Hubbard U. At the same time, while pure DFT calculations cannot explain the angular dependence of the Fermi surface as revealed by quantum oscillation experiments (a fact which had raised doubt about the presence of the Weyl physics in γ-MoTe2), inclusion of such on-site Coulomb repulsion can. We find that while the number of Weyl points (WPs) and their position in the Brillouin zone change as a function of U, a pair of such WPs very close to the Fermi level survive the inclusion of these important corrections. Our calculations suggest that the Fermi surface of γ-MoTe2 is in the vicinity of a correlations-induced Lifshitz transition, which can be probed experimentally and its interplay with the Weyl physics might be intriguing.
关键词： electron correlations,Lifshitz transition,angular resolved photoemission,MoTe2,DFT+U,Hubbard U,quantum oscillation,Weyl semimetal,photoelectron spectroscopy
更新于2025-09-23 15:23:52
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Directly photoexcited Dirac and Weyl fermions in ZrSiS and NbAs
摘要： We report ultrafast optical measurements of the Dirac line-node semimetal ZrSiS and the Weyl semimetal NbAs, using mid-infrared pump photons from 86 meV to 500 meV to directly excite Dirac and Weyl fermions within the linearly dispersing bands. In NbAs, the photoexcited Weyl fermions initially form a non-thermal distribution, signi?ed by a brief spike in the differential re?ectivity whose sign is controlled by the relative energy of the pump and probe photons. In ZrSiS, electron-electron scattering rapidly thermalizes the electrons, and the spike is not observed. Subsequently, hot carriers in both materials cool within a few picoseconds. This cooling, as seen in the two materials’ differential re?ectivity, differs in sign, shape, and timescale. Nonetheless, we ?nd that it may be described in a simple model of thermal electrons, without free parameters. The electronic cooling in ZrSiS is particularly fast, which may make the material useful for optoelectronic applications.
关键词： ultrafast optical measurements,electronic cooling,photoexcitation,Dirac line-node semimetal,thermalization,Weyl semimetal
更新于2025-09-23 15:21:01
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Subharmonic Shapiro steps in the a.c. Josephson effect for a three-dimensional Weyl semimetal WTe <sub/>2</sub>
摘要： We experimentally study electron transport between two superconducting indium leads, coupled to a single WTe2 crystal, which is a three-dimensional Weyl semimetal. We demonstrate Josephson current in 5 μm long In-WTe2-In junctions, as confirmed by the observation of integer (1, 2, 3) and fractional (1/3, 1/2, 2/3) Shapiro steps under microwave irradiation. The demonstration of the fractional a.c. Josephson effect indicates the multivalued character of the current-phase relationship, which we connect with the Weyl topological surface states contribution to the Josephson current. In contrast to topological insulators and Dirac semimetals, we do not observe 4π periodicity in the a.c. Josephson effect for WTe2 at different frequencies and power, which might reflect the chiral character of the Fermi arc surface states in a Weyl semimetal.
关键词： Shapiro steps,Josephson effect,Weyl semimetal,topological surface states
更新于2025-09-23 15:19:57
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Nonlinear optical conductivity of Weyl semimetals in the terahertz regime
摘要： We analyze the nonlinear optical properties in Weyl semimetals which result from the intraband and the interband contributions around the Weyl points respectively. Based on the Boltzmann equation and the Floquet method to the Schr¨odinger equation under the tight-binding model we can calculate any order of nonlinear optical conductivity in the Terahertz regime with the effective chiral Hamiltonian used. We find that the influences of the interband transition and intraband term on the optical properties of the system are opposite each other when increasing frequency and interband transitions dominates the optical responses. The part of the linear conductivity of the system which is contributed from the intraband electric motion increases when the relaxation time reduces and the part of the linear conductivity from the interband transitions increases with the decrease of the temperature. The part of the third harmonic generation which is contributed to the interband transitions is proportional to ω?3 and will be considerable when the frequency become small enough. The nonlinear terms enhance the optical reponses of Weyl semimetals and provide more information about the critical properties.
关键词： Tera Hertz,Nonlinear Optics,Weyl Semimetal
更新于2025-09-10 09:29:36
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Single-crystal investigation of the proposed type-II Weyl semimetal CeAlGe
摘要： We present details of materials synthesis, crystal structure, and anisotropic magnetic properties of single crystals of CeAlGe, a proposed type-II Weyl semimetal. Single-crystal x-ray diffraction con?rms that CeAlGe forms in a noncentrosymmetric I 41md space group, in line with predictions of nontrivial topology. Magnetization, speci?c heat, and electrical transport measurements were used to con?rm antiferromagnetic order below 5 K, with an estimated magnon excitation gap of (cid:2) = 9.11 K from heat capacity and hole-like carrier density of 1.4 × 1020 cm?3 from Hall effect measurements. The easy magnetic axis is along the [100] crystallographic direction, indicating that the moment lies in the tetragonal ab plane below 7 K. A spin-?op transition to less than 1 μB /Ce is observed to occur below 30 kOe at 1.8 K in the M (H ) (H(cid:2)a) data. Small magnetic ?elds of 3 and 30 kOe are suf?cient to suppress magnetic order when applied along the a and c axes, respectively, resulting in a complex T –H phase diagram for H(cid:2)a and a simpler one for H(cid:2)c.
关键词： Weyl semimetal,CeAlGe,electrical transport measurements,single-crystal x-ray diffraction,antiferromagnetic order,magnetization,specific heat
更新于2025-09-04 15:30:14