Transverse chiral magnetic photocurrent induced by linearly polarized light in mirror-symmetric Weyl semimetals

A class of photocurrents is predicted to occur in both type-I and type-II Weyl semimetals. Unlike the previously studied photocurrents in chiral materials, the proposed current requires neither circularly polarized light nor an absence of symmetry with respect to a plane of reflection. We show that...

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Main Authors: Sahal Kaushik, Dmitri E. Kharzeev, Evan John Philip
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2020-10-01
Series:Physical Review Research
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.042011