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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
卷 102, 期 24, 页码 -出版社
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.102.245126
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- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
- NSERC
- Fonds de Recherche du Quebec - Nature et Technologies (FRQNT)
One striking property of the Landau level spectrum of a Weyl semimetal (WSM) is the existence of a chiral Landau level, in which the electrons propagate unidirectionally along the magnetic field. This linearly dispersive level influences the optical properties of WSMs. For example, it was recently shown that a complete optical valley polarization is achievable in a time-reversal symmetric Weyl semimetal placed in a magnetic field [S. Bertrand et al., Phys. Rev. B 100, 075107 (2019)]. This effect originates from inter-Landau level transitions involving the chiral Landau level and requires a tilt of the Weyl cones. In this paper we show how the magneto-optical Kerr effect (MOKE) is modified in a WSM with tilted Weyl cones in comparison with its behavior in a normal metal and how a valley polarization can be detected using MOKE. We study both the Faraday (longitudinal) and Voigt (transverse) configurations for light incident on a semi-infinite WSM surface with no Fermi arcs. We use a minimal model of a WSM with four tilted Weyl nodes related by mirror and time-reversal symmetry. In the Voigt configuration, a large peak of the Kerr angle occurs at the plasmon frequency. We show that the blueshift in frequency of this peak with increasing magnetic field is a signature of the chiral anomaly in the MOKE.
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