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Ultrafast topological phenomena in Weyl semimetals

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Abstract

For Weyl semimetals, we predict that an intense ultrafast (single-oscillation) circularly polarized optical pulse can induce a large population of the conduction band. The response of Weyl points to an ultrafast laser field is different and so the conduction population is highly textured which we call it topological resonance. The topological resonance is due to the Bloch motion of electrons in the reciprocal space where electron population textures are formed due to non-Abelian Berry curvature.

Presenters

  • Fatemeh Nematollahi

    Georgia State University

Authors

  • Fatemeh Nematollahi

    Georgia State University

  • Jhih-Sheng Wu

    Georgia State University

  • Vadym Apalkov

    Department of Physics and Center of Nano Optics, Georgia State University, Georgia State University

  • Mark I Stockman

    Department of Physics and Center of Nano Optics, Georgia State University, Georgia State University