Optical Evidence of Chiral Plasmon mode in Dirac and Weyl semimetals

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Abstract

The first observation of chiral plasmon modes in 3D Dirac and Weyl materials Na3Bi and CoSi is reported through optical spectroscopy. Reflection measurements on single-crystals, over the spectral range from 20 mev to 2.5 eV and temperature ranging from 5K to 300K, show absorption features locked to the strongly temperature-dependent plasma edges. The frequency shifts of chiral plasmon features from the plasma edge are consistent with the Berry curvature associated with a Dirac or Weyl pair. The Lifshitz gap associated with inter-Fermi arcs transitions in CoSi is also reported.

*Work supported by DOE grant # DE-SC0005436

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Presenters

  • Francois Joint

    • University of Maryland, College Park

Authors

  • Francois Joint

    • University of Maryland, College Park

  • Gregory S Jenkins

    • University of Maryland, College Park

  • Chaowei Hu

    • University of California, Los Angeles
    • Physics, University of California, Los Angeles
    • Physics and Astronomy Department, University of California, Los Angeles
    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles

  • Tiema Qian

    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles

  • Ni Ni

    • University of California, Los Angeles
    • Physics, University of California, Los Angeles
    • Physics and Astronomy Department, University of California, Los Angeles
    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles

  • Howard Drew

    • University of Maryland, College Park