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Hiroaki Ishizuka1, Tomoya Hayata2, Masahito Ueda3,4
1Department of Applied Physics, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan.
Abstract:
The photovoltaic effect due to the adiabatic quantum phase in noncentrosymmetric Weyl semimetals is studied. We particularly focus on the case in which an external ac electric field is applied. By considering a generalized Weyl Hamiltonian with nonlinear terms, we show that the photocurrent is induced by circularly, rather than linearly, polarized light. This photovoltaic current can be understood as an emergent electromagnetic induction in momentum space; the Weyl node is a magnetic monopole in momentum space, the circular motion of which induces the electric field. This result is distinct from conventional photovoltaic effects, and the estimated photocurrent is ∼10^{-1}-10^{1} nA, which can be detected experimentally.
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