Photocurrents in Weyl semimetals

The generation of photocurrent in an ideal two-dimensional Dirac spectrum is symmetry forbidden. In sharp contrast, we show that three-dimensional Weyl semimetals can generically support significant photocurrents due to the combination of inversion symmetry breaking and finite tilts of the Weyl spec...

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Main Authors: Lindner, Netanel H. (Author), Refael, Gil (Author), Chan, Ching-Kit (Contributor), Lee, Patrick A (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society, 2017-06-23T12:47:17Z.
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