Collective modes in multi-Weyl semimetals.
We investigate collective modes in three dimensional (3D) gapless multi-Weyl semimetals with anisotropic energy band dispersions (i.e., with a positive integer J). For comparison, we also consider the gapless semimetals with the isotropic band dispersions (i.e. E ~ kJ). We calculate analytically long-wavelength plasma frequencies incorporating interband transitions and chiral properties of carriers. For both the isotropic and anisotropic cases, we find that interband transitions and chirality lead to the depolarization shift of plasma frequencies. For the isotropic parabolic band dispersion the long-wavelength plasmons do not decay via Landau damping, while for the higher-order band dispersions the long-wavelength plasmons experience damping below a critical density. For systems with the anisotropic dispersion the density dependence of the long-wavelength plasma frequency along the direction of non-linear dispersion behaves like that of the isotropic linear band model, while along the direction of linear dispersion it behaves like that of the isotropic non-linear model. Plasmons along both directions remain undamped over a broad range of densities due to the chirality induced depolarization shift. Our results provide a comprehensive picture of how band dispersion and chirality affect plasmon behaviors in 3D gapless chiral systems with the arbitrary band dispersion.
Department of Physics and Astronomy and Center for Theoretical Physics, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Korea.
Seongjin
S
Ahn
SKKU Advanced Institute of Nanotechnology and Department of Physics, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, 440-746, Korea.
E H
EH
Hwang
Department of Physics and Astronomy and Center for Theoretical Physics, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Korea.
Hongki
H
Min
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