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Chiral plasmon in gapped Dirac systems

Anshuman Kumar, Andrei Nemilentsau, Kin Hung Fung, George Hanson, Nicholas X. Fang, and Tony Low
Phys. Rev. B 93, 041413(R) – Published 19 January 2016
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    We study the electromagnetic response and surface electromagnetic modes in a generic gapped Dirac material under pumping with circularly polarized light. The valley imbalance due to pumping leads to a net Berry curvature, giving rise to a finite transverse conductivity. We discuss the appearance of nonreciprocal chiral edge modes, their hybridization and waveguiding in a nanoribbon geometry, and giant polarization rotation in nanoribbon arrays.

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    • Received 14 September 2015
    • Revised 22 December 2015

    DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.93.041413

    ©2016 American Physical Society

    Physics Subject Headings (PhySH)

    1. Research Areas
    Geometric & topological phasesPlasmons
    1. Physical Systems
    2-dimensional systems
    1. Techniques
    Rotating wave approximation
    Condensed Matter, Materials & Applied Physics

    Authors & Affiliations

    Anshuman Kumar1, Andrei Nemilentsau2, Kin Hung Fung3, George Hanson2, Nicholas X. Fang1,*, and Tony Low4,†

    • 1Mechanical Engineering Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
    • 2Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53211, USA
    • 3Department of Applied Physics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
    • 4Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA

    • *nicfang@mit.edu
    • †tlow@umn.edu

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    Vol. 93, Iss. 4 — 15 January 2016

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      Optically induced valley polarization: (a) Polarization selective pumping leads to different populations in the K and K′ valleys. (b) DC electronic carrier concentration in the two valleys as a function of the pump electric field. (c) DC σxy in the two valleys as a function of the right circular polarized pump electric field.

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      (a) Chiral plasmon dispersion in bulk and semi-infinite MDS. (b) Selective excitation of edge modes using circular and linear polarized dipoles placed at the origin: Line plots of electric field Ex in the plane and perpendicular to the edge. The vertical offset is 6×1018V/m. (c) |E| field (normalized to max) profile for a x̂-polarized emitter located near the edge of semi-infinite Dirac material (x<0) at ω=0.1eV. Both of these field profiles show nonreciprocal emission into the edge mode. The dipoles are placed 10nm above the MDS.

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      Guided modes in freestanding MDS ribbons. Ribbon width is assumed to be w=100nm. The gray dashed lines represent solutions of kBw+ϕR=nπ, where kB is the bulk plasmon momentum in MDS and ϕR≈−3π/4 [35], which explains the cutoff for all the guided modes (except the edge mode). The black solid lines represent the bulk plasmon in a continuous sheet of MDS (same as Fig. 2). The color plots below represent the real part of the electric field along the ribbon at the indicated q.

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      Transmission and polarization rotation in freestanding MDS ribbons: (a) Transmission (vertical offset is one unit). Inset: Schematic of the configuration. Note that in general the transmitted wave is expected to be elliptically polarized as opposed to linear as shown here. (b) Polarization rotation spectrum for different ribbon sizes w (vertical offset is 6 degrees). For ribbon arrays, a filling factor of 50% has been assumed.

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