Chiral Optical Response of Multifold Fermions

Abstract

Multifold fermions are generalizations of two-fold degenerate Weyl fermions with three-, four-, six- or eight-fold degeneracies protected by crystal symmetries, of which only the last type is necessarily non-chiral. Their low energy degrees of freedom can be described as emergent particles not present in the Standard Model of particle physics. We propose a range of experimental probes for multifold fermions in chiral symmetry groups based on the gyrotropic magnetic effect (GME) and the circular photo-galvanic effect (CPGE). We find that, in contrast to Weyl fermions, multifold fermions can have zero Berry curvature yet a finite GME, leading to an enhanced response. The CPGE is quantized and independent of frequency provided that the frequency region at which it is probed defines closed optically-activated momentum surfaces. We confirm the above properties by calculations in symmetry-restricted tight binding models with realistic density functional theory parameters. We identify a range of previously-unidentified ternary compounds able to exhibit chiral multifold fermions of all types (including a range of materials in the families AsBaPt and Gd${}_3$Cl${}_3$C), and provide specific predictions for the known multifold material RhSi.

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