Unidirectional transport in electronic and photonic Weyl materials by Dirac mass engineering

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关键词: FERMION SEMIMETAL;    ZERO MODES;    DISCOVERY;    MOBILITY;    LATTICE;    POINTS;    STATES;    PHASE;    ARCS;   

DOI  :  10.1103/PhysRevB.92.241109

来源: SCIE

【 摘 要 】

Unidirectional transports have been observed in two-dimensional systems, however, so far they have not been experimentally observed in three-dimensional bulk materials. In this theoretical work, we show that the recently discovered Weyl materials provide a platform for unidirectional transports inside bulk materials. With high experimental feasibility, a complex Dirac mass can be generated and manipulated in photonic Weyl crystals, creating unidirectionally propagating modes observable in transmission experiments. A possible realization in (electronic) Weyl semimetals is also studied. We show in a lattice model that, with a short-range interaction, the desired form of the Dirac mass can be spontaneously generated in a first-order transition.

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