Abstract
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.
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Introduction
In recent years, there have been much interest in Dirac materials such as graphene1,2, topological insulators3,4, high-temperature d-wave superconductors5, which are described by the Dirac-like equation at low energies. Dirac materials show novel physical features because of the chiral band dispersion with spin-momentum locking and the existence of the Weyl points at which conduction and valence bands touch, distinguishing themselves from other conventional materials with parabolic energy dispersion at low energies. Recently three dimensional (3D) Weyl semimetals, which are 3D analogs of graphene, have attracted considerable attention because they are expected to give a broad spectrum of unusual physical properties as two dimensional graphene. In recent experiments of angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy and scanning tunneling microscopy, several materials such as Cd3As26,7,8,9,10,11,12, Na3Bi13, NbAs14, TaP15,16, ZrTe517,18 and TaAs19,20,21,22,23,24,25 have been identified as Weyl semimetals. In addition, several efforts have been made on the realization of Weyl semimetals in artificial systems such as photonic crystals26,27,28,29,30.
Recently, a new type of Weyl semimetals referred to as multi-Weyl semimetals has been proposed31,32,33. These materials are characterized by double (triple) Weyl-nodes in which the band dispersion is linear along one direction and quadratic (cubic) along the remaining two directions. Because of the change in topological nature and the enhancement of the density of states, the anisotropic non-linear energy dispersion and a modified spin-momentum locking structure have important consequences in topological, transport and interaction-induced properties34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42. Despite their broad interest, however, there have been lack of studies on the collective modes of charge oscillations in chiral gapless systems including multi-Weyl systems.
The goal of this paper is to investigate electronic collective modes of chiral gapless electron-hole systems in 3D and to find wave-vector-dependent plasmon dispersions, considering interband transitions along with chirality of the systems. Given the great current interest in gapless linearly dispersing Dirac systems and the emergence of multi-Weyl semimetals, it is necessary to obtain results for linear and higher-order dispersions in 3D in order to develop intuition about the dispersion and chirality dependence of electronic properties. We consider both gapless semimetals with an isotropic band dispersion and multi-Weyl semimetals with an anisotropic band dispersion. We calculate the plasmon modes and the energy loss functions (spectral strength) in gapless semimetals, and present analytical and numerical results for long-wavelength plasma frequencies focusing on the effect of chirality. Throughout the paper we consider the systems with the finite carrier density, i.e., either electron or hole doped (or gated) systems at zero temperatures.
We find many intriguing and unexpected features of the plasmon modes and their Landau damping in gapless semimetals. For chiral systems with the isotropic linear and quadratic band dispersion (N = 1, 2 in E ∝ kN) the long-wavelength plasmons lie outside the Landau damping regions due to the depolarization effects arising from the interband transition and therefore they do not decay by producing electron-hole pairs. For the systems with higher-order dispersions (N ≥ 3), the long-wavelength plasma frequencies divided by Fermi energy (i.e., ħωp/EF) increase as the density decreases and enter the interband single particle excitation (SPE) region at the critical carrier density, where the dispersion shows a discrete energy jump. For the multi-Weyl systems with an anisotropic dispersion (i.e., with a linear band dispersion along z direction and non-linear in x-y directions), one interesting salient feature in the calculated plasma frequency is the density dependence of the plasmon. We find that 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 (N = 1), while along the direction of linear dispersion it behaves like that of the isotropic non-linear model (N ≥ 2). We find that both the plasmons remain undamped over a broad range of density and interaction strength due to the chirality induced red-shift of plasmon modes. We believe that our predictions may be easily observable via inelastic light-scattering spectroscopy43,44,45 or inelastic electron-scattering spectroscopy46,47,48,49,50.
The rest of the paper is organized as follows. In Sec. II, we consider semimetals with arbitrary isotropic band dispersion and present analytical and numerical results for long-wavelength plasma frequencies at zero temperature. In Sec. III, we consider multi-Weyl semimetals with an anisotropic dispersion and present results for zero-temperature plasma frequencies. In Sec. IV, we summarize and conclude our results.
The Isotropic Model
Before we calculate the collective modes in gapless multi-Weyl semimetals with anisotropic energy band dispersions, we first consider the gapless semimetals with the isotropic band dispersions. For the isotropic model we consider the following Hamiltonian that describes a chiral gapless system with the symmetric energy dispersion,
where k is the wave vector, , σ are Pauli matrices acting in the space of two bands involved at the Weyl point, and E0 and k0 are material dependent parameters, which have units of energy and momentum, respectively. The corresponding energy dispersions are given by and the eigenfunctions corresponding to the ± energies are
where and . The |+〉 state with positive energy represents the conduction band, and the |−〉 state with negative energy represents the valence band. Note that the Hamiltonian in Eq. (1) with N = 1 corresponds to the Hamiltonian of Weyl semimetals. To understand the effects of chirality on the plasmon properties beyond the energy dispersion of the system, we also consider the following form of a non-chiral gapless Hamiltonian:
The non-chiral Hamiltonian we introduce in Eq. (4) has exactly the same energy dispersion as the chiral system in Eq. (1). Unlike the chiral model, however, its eigenstates are completely independent of each other so that the chiral nature of wave functions is absent. It will be shown later that the interband transitions associated with chirality are largely responsible for differences between plasmons in the presence and absence of chirality.
Plasmons are defined as longitudinal in-phase oscillation of all the carriers driven by the self-consistent electric field generated by the local variation in charge density. To find the full plasmon dispersion at finite wave vectors we need the quantum mechanical many-body theory for the collective motion of all carriers51. Within the random phase approximation (RPA), the plasmon dispersion is obtained by finding zeros of the dynamical dielectric function, which is expressed as51,52,53,54,55,56
where is the Coulomb interaction and κ is a background dielectric constant. The non-interacting polarizability Π(q, ω) is given by
where is the Fermi distribution function for the band s = ±1, μ is the chemical potential, , is the overlap factor, θk , k + q is the angle between k and k + q , and g denotes the number of degenerate Weyl nodes of the system. Since we focus on the long-wavelength plasmons in this work, we neglect transitions between different nodes located at different momenta. Within this assumption, contributions from other Weyl nodes can be taken into account by multiplying the degeneracy factor g. It is important to notice that in the non-chiral model described by Eq. (4) and later by Eq. (14), the overlap factor becomes the Kronecker δ, i.e., , which excludes the possibility of any interband transitions between the conduction and valence bands. In this sense, the non-chiral model considered here is a two-band model without interband transitions, which is effectively a single-band model with the same energy dispersion.
We first consider the loss function of 3D gapless semimetals, which is calculated from the dielectric function (i.e., −Im[1/ε(q, ω)]) and can be directly measured in experiments such as inelastic electron spectroscopy. The loss function is related to the dynamical structure factor S(q, ω) by , which gives a direct measure of the spectral strength of the various elementary excitations. Figure 1 shows the density plots of calculated energy-loss functions in (q, ω) space for N = 2 (parabolic dispersion) and N = 3 (cubic dispersion) in the absence (top panels) and presence (bottom panels) of chirality. Plasmon dispersions are given by sharp peaks of the energy-loss function, which correspond to the poles of the dielectric function. When both Re[ε] and Im[ε] become zero (i.e., ε(q, ω) = 0, which defines the plasmon mode), the imaginary part of the inverse dielectric function becomes the Dirac δ-function, i.e., with the strength
where ωp(q) is the plasma frequency at a given wave vector q. Thus, an undamped plasmon shows up as a well-defined δ-function peak in the loss function as indicated by sharp yellow solid lines in Fig. 1. The undamped plasmon mode in general carries most of spectral weights and should be observable in experiments (i.e., it is expected that the mode does not decay by electron-hole pairs). The dotted lines in Fig. 1 represent the boundaries of the intraband and interband electron-hole single particle excitation (SPE) continua. The electron-hole SPE continua show up as weak broad incoherent structure and carries small spectral weight. When the plasmon mode enters the SPE continuum at the critical wave vector qc, the dielectric function ε(q > qc, ω) has a finite imaginary part and the plasmon mode becomes damped via Landau damping. The plasmon mode inside the Landau damping region decays by emitting intraband or interband electron-hole pairs, which is now allowed by energy-momentum conservation. The broadened peaks inside the SPE regions in Fig. 1 indicate the damped plasmons. The plasmon energy scaled by the Fermi energy (ħωp/EF) is strongly dependent on the band structure. One interesting result is the chirality dependence of the plasmon energy, and it is important to note that in the presence of chirality, plasma frequencies are red-shifted. This is due to the depolarization effect on the plasmon modes, arising from interband transitions.
Figure 2 shows the long-wavelength plasma frequencies for N = 2 and N = 3 as a function of Fermi energy in the presence (red) and absence (blue) of chirality. In this figure the boundary of interband SPE at q = 0 is 2EF. If the plasma frequency is larger (smaller) than 2EF, the plasmon decays (does not decay) by Landau damping. For both N = 2 and N = 3, ħωp/EF in the absence of chirality increases monotonically with decreasing density and diverges in the low density limit (EF → 0). In the presence of chirality, the plasma frequencies are always smaller than those without chirality, and the energy difference between the two plasmons grows as the carrier density decreases. For N = 2, as the density goes to zero, the plasma frequency approaches a finite value less than 2EF, i.e., , indicating that the long-wavelength plasmon does not enter the interband electron-hole continuum for the whole range of densities and thus the plasmon is not damped through the Landau damping. For N = 3, the plasma frequency as a function of Fermi energy exhibits a discrete jump at a critical value of EF = ħωp/2, and below the critical value the plasmon energy becomes bigger than 2EF and enters into the interband electron-hole continuum decaying via Landau damping. Note that interband transitions are more suppressed at high densities due to Pauli-blocking, which narrows the energy range over which interband transitions can occur. Thus, the effect of interband transition on plasmons becomes weaker at high densities, resulting in small depolarization shift in plasmon energy. For this reason, the signature of chirality in the plasmon dispersions is significant at low densities.
To get further insight into the results shown in Fig. 1, here we present the calculated analytic expressions for the leading-order long-wavelength plasma frequencies (for details, see Supplementary Information),
in the absence of chirality and
in the presence of chirality, where is the coupling constant characterizing the interaction strength. The above results are calculated in limit for N ≥ 2. Note that for N = 1 Weyl semimetals a linear band dispersion leads to cut-off dependent long-wavelength plasma frequencies57,58. It is easy to see from Eq. (9) that the plasma frequency with chirality is red-shifted with respect to that without chirality, showing different density dependence at low densities. This difference originates from the interband transition contribution, which appears in the additional term of the polarizability with the opposite sign of the intraband contribution (see Eq. (8) in Supplementary Information). This indicates that interband transitions and associated chiral nature of wavefunctions contribute to the depolarization of the screening and are responsible for the red-shift of the plasma frequencies.
It is interesting that the density dependence of the long wavelength plasma frequencies shown in Eq. (8) can be obtained from the classical plasma frequency59
where n is the charge carrier density and m is the effective mass of the charge carrier. By using the momentum relation mvF = ħkF (vF and kF are the Fermi velocity and the Fermi wave-vector, respectively) and the energy dispersion relation for arbitrary band dispersion, the density dependence of the classical plasma frequency can be calculated as
which agrees with the full RPA result in Eq. (8) for the non-chiral case. Thus, for N = 1 we have , i.e., the plasma frequency scaled by the Fermi energy is independent of EF54. For N ≥ 2, with α = (N − 1)/2N, i.e., the scaled plasma frequency increases as the density (or Fermi energy) decreases and diverge as EF → 0. Note that the interband transition red-shifts the classical plasma frequencies in the presence of chirality.
The Anisotropic Model
In the previous section we have discussed the plasmon properties of isotropic gapless semimetals. In this section we explore, within the RPA, the plasmon properties of the anisotropic multi-Weyl system whose dispersion is non-linear in the in-plane directions, but linear in the out-of-plane direction.
We consider the following Hamiltonian that describes a multi-Weyl node of order J,
where , k± = kx ± iky, and k0 and E0 are material dependent parameters. Throughout this section the momentum and the energy are normalized by k0 and E0, respectively. With these normalized quantities, we can write the energy dispersion as , where is the in-plane momentum corresponding to non-linear dispersion in the x − y plane and kz is the out-of-plane momentum along the z direction where the dispersion is linear (E ~ kz). The overlap factor is given by
where k = (kx, ky, kz) and are related to (r, θ, ϕ) and (r′, θ′, ϕ′) through the coordinate transformation, respectively (see Eq. (9) in Supplementary Information). For comparison, we also introduce an anisotropic non-chiral model with the same energy dispersion:
To investigate the plasmon dispersions and their damping we calculate the energy loss function of the system. Figure 3 shows the density plots of the calculated energy loss functions for J = 2 in the absence (top panels) and presence (bottom panels) of chirality. Figure 3(a,c) show the density plots of the energy loss function in (qz, ω) space for a fixed in-plane wave vector (q‖ = 0), and Fig. 3(b,d) show the density plots of the energy loss function in (q‖, ω) space for a fixed out of plane wave vector (qz = 0). The yellow lines with the largest spectral weight in the energy loss correspond to the plasmon dispersions of the system. The two most important salient features of the results shown in Fig. 3 are following. First, the plasmon dispersions for both in-plane and out-of-plane directions are red-shifted in the presence of chirality, which is consistent with the isotropic results. Second, the plasmon dispersion along the out-of-plane direction (where the band dispersion is linear) shows a similar behavior as that in the N = 1 isotropic system. This is because the longitudinal plasmon oscillations propagating along the out-of-plane direction arise from the collective carriers with linear band dispersion and thus their effective motion is essentially identical to those in gapless semimetals with linear dispersion (N = 1). The same argument is also applied to the in-plane plasmon modes which propagate along the in-plane direction, where the carriers have the parabolic dispersion and therefore the plasmon dispersion behaves as that in the N = 2 isotropic system.
In contrast to the plasmon dispersions, however, the density dependence of the long-wavelength plasmons shows a non-trivial relation between the isotropic and anisotropic models. Figure 4 presents calculated long-wavelength plasma frequencies as a function of Fermi energy for J = 2 and J = 3 in the presence (red) and absence (blue) of chirality. The in-plane plasma frequencies ħωp/EF [(a) for J = 2 and (b) for J = 3], show the same behavior as the N = 1 isotropic system, i.e., the normalized frequencies are weakly dependent on the carrier density over a wide range both with and without chirality. Note that this behavior is similar to that in gapless semimetals with linear dispersion. For the z-direction [(c) for J = 2 and (d) for J = 3], ħωp/EF increases with decreasing Fermi energy in the absence of chirality, and diverges in the EF → 0 limit for both J = 2 and J = 3. In the presence of chirality, for J = 2 and J = 3 it converges to a finite value in the EF → 0 limit. Note that these results are qualitatively similar to the chiral signature of N = 2 and N = 3 isotropic systems, respectively, as discussed in Sec. II, though here the energy dispersion along the z-direction is linear. It is important to notice that this result is against our expectations because the density dependence of the anisotropic plasmons along a direction with a specific energy dispersion does not match with the corresponding plasmons in the isotropic model with the same energy dispersion. It should also be noted that for the chiral case anisotropic plasmons along both the in-plane and out-of-plane directions are significantly red-shifted so that they are outside the electron-hole continua for a broad range of density and coupling strength. For J = 3 plasmons, this is in sharp contrast to the counterpart of the isotropic case (N = 3), where plasmons exhibit a discrete jump merging into the electron-hole continua at a critical Fermi energy.
Here we analyze the previous numerical results in Fig. 4 with analytical expressions. Similarly as the isotropic case, we can also derive long-wavelength plasma frequencies from the linear response theory in the many-body approach. In the absence of chirality, we obtain plasma frequencies for the anisotropic model to be
along the k‖ momentum direction and
along the kz momentum direction (For details, see Supplementary Information). The difference in density dependence between the two plasma frequencies can also be understood by the classical derivation of plasma frequency, as in the isotropic case. Since the density of states of the anisotropic model in Eq. (12) is calculated to be D(E) ~ E2/J, the total carrier density n becomes . Since the energy dispersion is anisotropic, it is expected that the effective mass is also anisotropic. Thus, electrons would effectively behave as if they have the energy dispersion with along the in-plane k‖ momentum direction, and E ~ kz with m ~ EF for the out-of-plane kz momentum direction. Putting n and m into Eq. (10), we can obtain the Fermi energy dependence of the plasma frequency in classical limit:
along the k‖ momentum direction and
along the kz momentum direction. The density dependence of plasmons obtained from both classical and quantum mechanical approaches are consistent with the numerical results in Fig. 4. Note that as in the case of the isotropic system, the density dependence of classical plasma frequencies is in good agreement with that of the non-chiral plasmon.
Summary and Conclusion
In this paper we investigate theoretically electronic collective modes of 3D chiral gapless electron-hole systems and find the wave vector dependent plasmon dispersion. We have calculated long-wavelength plasma frequencies and their density dependence both in semimetals with an isotropic band dispersion and in multi-Weyl semimetals with an anisotropic band dispersion. We find that the interband transition associated with chirality leads to the depolarization shift of plasma frequencies irrespective of band dispersion.
For the isotropic parabolic dispersion (N = 2), the depolarization shift of the long-wavelength plasmons arises from the interband electron-hole transition and the plasmons lie outside the interband electron-hole continuum (i.e., ħωp < 2EF). Thus, the plasmons do not decay via Landau damping. For the cubic dispersion (N = 3), we find that the plasma frequency (ħωp/EF) increases as the density decreases and enters the interband single particle excitation region at a critical carrier density showing a discrete energy jump.
For the anisotropic dispersion, we have calculated the plasma frequencies in a system with a linear band dispersion along one specific direction and non-linear dispersion in the other remaining directions. We find that the density dependence of the long-wavelength plasma frequency along the direction of non-linear dispersion shows a similar behavior as that of the linear band isotropic model (N = 1), in which ħωp/EF depends weakly on the density over a wide range of Fermi energies. On the other hand, the density dependence of the long-wavelength plasma frequency along the direction of linear dispersion shows a similar behavior as that of the isotropic model with the non-linear dispersion. The long-wavelength plasmons along all the directions are undamped due to the chirality induced red-shift of plasma frequencies.
Our predicted plasmon properties clearly distinguish gapless semimetals from the extensively studied usual parabolic 3D electron systems. We believe that our predictions can be tested in doped gapless semimetals using inelastic light scattering43,44,45 and electron scattering46,47,48,49,50 spectroscopies.
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This research was supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education under Grant Nos 2015R1D1A1A01058071 (S.A. and H.M.) and 2014R1A2A2A01006776 (E.H.H.).
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