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Determine the chirality of Weyl fermions from the circular dichroism spectra of time-dependent ARPES

Authors :
Yu, Rui
Weng, Hongming
Fang, Zhong
Ding, Hong
Dai, Xi
Publication Year :
2015

Abstract

We show that the intensity of pumped states near Weyl point is different when pumped with left- and right-handed circular polarized light, which leads to a special circular dichroism (CD) in time-dependent angle resolved photoemission spectra (ARPES). We derive the expression for the CD of time-dependent ARPES, which is directly related to the chirality of Weyl fermions. Based on the above derivation, we further propose a method to determine the chirality for a given Weyl point from the CD of time-dependent ARPES. The corresponding CD spectra for TaAs has then been calculated from the first principle, which can be compared with the future experiments.<br />4 figures

Details

Language :
English
Database :
OpenAIRE
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....cd2345cc97a4477c057143adf518ae4b