The Infinite Berry Curvature of Weyl Fermi Arcs

ORAL

Abstract

We show that Weyl Fermi arcs are generically accompanied by a divergence of the surface Berry curvature scaling as 1/k2, where k is the distance to a hot-line in the surface Brillouin zone that connects the projection of Weyl nodes with opposite chirality but which is distinct from the Fermi arc itself. This divergence is reflected in a variety of Berry curvature mediated effects that are readily accessible experimentally, and in particular leads to a surface Berry curvature dipole that grows linearly with the thickness of a slab of a Weyl semimetal material in the clean limit. This implies the emergence of a gigantic contribution to the non-linear Hall effect in such devices.

Presenters

  • Dennis Wawrzik

    • IFW - Dresden

Authors

  • Dennis Wawrzik

    • IFW - Dresden
  • Jhih-Shih You

    • Department of Physics, National Taiwan Normal University
    • National Taiwan Normal University Taipei
  • Jorge I. Facio

    • Institute for Theoretical Solid State Physics, IFW Dresden
    • IFW - Dresden
  • Jeroen Van den Brink

    • Institute for Theoretical Solid State Physics, IFW Dresden
    • IFW Dresden, Leibniz-Institut fur Festkorper- und Werkstoffforschung
    • IFW - Dresden
  • Inti A Sodemann

    • Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems
    • Condensed Matter, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems
    • PKS, Max Planck Institute