Odd non-linear conductivity under spatial inversion in chiral Tellurium

Abstract

Electrical transport in non-centrosymmetric materials departs from the well-established phenomenological Ohm's law. Instead of a linear relation between current and electric field, a non-linear conductivity emerges along specific crystallographic directions. This non-linear transport is fundamentally related to the lack of spatial inversion symmetry. However, the experimental implications of an inversion symmetry operation on the non-linear conductivity remain to be explored. Here, we report on a large, non-linear conductivity in chiral Tellurium. By measuring samples with opposite handedness, we demonstrate that the non-linear transport is odd under spatial inversion. Furthermore, by applying an electrostatic gate, we modulate the non-linear output by a factor of 300, reaching the highest reported value excluding engineered heterostructures. Our results establish chiral Te as an ideal compound not just to study the fundamental interplay between crystal structure, symmetry operations and non-linear transport, but also to develop wireless rectifiers and energy-harvesting chiral devices.

7 pages, 4 figures, Supplemental Material

References in corpus (33)

• Quantum nonlinear Hall effect induced by Berry curvature dipole in time-reversal invariant materials
• Field-effect transistors made from solution-grown two-dimensional tellurene
• Observation of the nonlinear Hall effect under time reversal symmetric conditions
• Nonlinear Hall Effects
• Engineering symmetry breaking in two-dimensional layered materials
• Disorder-induced nonlinear Hall effect with time-reversal symmetry
• Intrinsic nonlinear Hall effect in antiferromagnetic tetragonal CuMnAs
• Room temperature nonlinear Hall effect and wireless RF rectification in Weyl semimetal TaIrTe4
• Berry curvature memory through electrically driven stacking transitions
• Intrinsic Second-Order Anomalous Hall Effect and Its Application in Compensated Antiferromagnets
• Gate-tuneable and chirality-dependent charge-to-spin conversion in Tellurium nanowires
• Bilinear magneto-electric resistance as a probe of three-dimensional spin texture in topological surface states
• Multivariable Scaling for the Anomalous Hall Effect
• Berry curvature dipole senses topological transition in a moiré superlattice
• Quantum theory of the nonlinear Hall effect
• Electrically tuneable nonlinear anomalous Hall effect in two-dimensional transition-metal dichalcogenides WTe2 and MoTe2
• Symmetry and Quantum Kinetics of the Non-linear Hall Effect
• Quantum frequency doubling in the topological insulator Bi2Se3
• Zero-magnetic-field Hall effects in artificially corrugated bilayer graphene
• Giant spontaneous Hall effect in a nonmagnetic Weyl-Kondo semimetal
• Terahertz detection based on nonlinear Hall effect without magnetic field
• Giant $c$-axis nonlinear anomalous Hall effect in T${}_d$-MoTe${}_2$ and WTe${}_2$
• Giant nonlinear Hall effect in twisted WSe${}_2$
• Strain Tunable Berry Curvature Dipole, Orbital Magnetization and Nonlinear Hall Effect in WSe2 Monolayer
• Non-linear Hall effect in three-dimensional Weyl and Dirac semimetals
• Strong Room-Temperature Bulk Nonlinear Hall Effect in a Spin-Valley Locked Dirac Material
• Highly tunable nonlinear Hall effects induced by spin-orbit couplings in strained polar transition-metal dichalcogenides
• Control over Berry Curvature Dipole with Electric Field in WTe2
• Intrinsic nonlinear Hall effect and gate-switchable Berry curvature sliding in twisted bilayer graphene
• Nonlinear Hall effect in Weyl semimetals induced by chiral anomaly
• Long-range current-induced spin accumulation in chiral crystals
• On the separation of Hall and Ohmic nonlinear responses
• Ferroic Berry Curvature Dipole in a Topological Crystalline Insulator at Room Temperature

Cited by in corpus (13)

• Non-linear Transport in Non-centrosymmetric Systems: From Fundamentals to Applications
• General theory for longitudinal nonreciprocal charge transport
• Detecting Lifshitz Transitions Using Nonlinear Conductivity in Bilayer Graphene
• Symmetry Origin and Microscopic Mechanism of Electrical Magnetochiral Anisotropy in Tellurium
• Observation of a dynamic magneto-chiral instability in photoexcited tellurium
• Chirality-tunable non-linear Hall effect
• Two-Terminal Electrical Detection of the Néel Vector via Longitudinal Antiferromagnetic Nonreciprocal Transport
• Nonlinear longitudinal current of band-geometric origin in wires of finite thickness
• Second-Order Conductivity Probes a Cascade of Singularities in a Moiré Superlattice
• Identifying geometric third-order nonlinear transport in disordered materials
• Probing the Chirality of Trigonal Selenium and Tellurium by Spin and Orbital Hall Effects
• Second-Order Synaptic Memory using Inherent Plasticity of Moiré Superlattices
• Prediction of a layer nonlinear Hall effect in bilayer nonmagnetic or antiferromagnetic systems