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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
卷 87, 期 16, 页码 -出版社
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.87.165110
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- Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Materials Sciences and Engineering Division of the US Department of Energy [DE-AC02-05CH11231]
Optical gyrotropy, the lifting of degeneracy between left and right circularly polarized light, can be generated by either time-reversal or chiral symmetry breaking. In the high-T-c superconductor La2-xBaxCuO4 (LBCO), gyrotropy onsets at the same temperature as charge stripe order, suggesting that the rotation of the stripe direction from one plane to the next generates a helical pattern that breaks chiral symmetry. In order to further test this chiral stacking hypothesis it is necessary to develop an understanding of the physical mechanisms by which chirality generates gyrotropy. In this paper we show that, in chiral metals, optical gyrotropy is a consequence of Berry curvature in momentum space. We describe a physical picture showing that gyrotropy in chiral metals is closely related to the anomalous Hall effect in itinerant ferromagnets. We then calculate the magnitude of the gyrotropic response for a given Berry curvature using the semiclassical picture of anomalous velocity and Boltzmann transport theory. To connect this physical picture with experiment, we calculate the Berry curvature in two tight-binding models. The first model is motivated by the structure of LBCO and illustrates how gyrotropy is created when stripe perturbations are added to a simple cubic model. In the second model, we examine the dramatic enhancement of the gyrotropic coefficient when Rashba spin-orbit coupling is introduced. The magnitude of the rotation of polarization on reflection expected based on these models is calculated and compared with experimental data. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.87.165110
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