Symmetry transformation of nonlinear optical current of tilted Weyl nodes and application to ferromagnetic MnBi2Te4

Abstract

A Weyl node is characterized by its chirality and tilt. We develop a theory of how $n$th-order nonlinear optical conductivity behaves under transformations of anisotropic tensor and tilt, which clarify how chirality-dependent and -independent parts of optical conductivity transform under the reversal of tilt and chirality. Built on this theory, we propose ferromagnetic $\mathrm{MnB}{\mathrm{i}}_2\mathrm{T}{\mathrm{e}}_4$ as a magnetoelectrically regulated, terahertz optical device, by magnetoelectrically switching the chirality-dependent and -independent dc photocurrents. These results are useful for creating nonlinear optical devices based on topological Weyl semimetals.