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The Infinite Berry Curvature of Weyl Fermi Arcs

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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