High-harmonic generation in semi-Dirac and Weyl semimetals with broken time-reversal symmetry: Exploring merging of Weyl nodes

Abstract

We explore anomalous high-harmonic generation in a model that realizes a transition from a broken time-reversal symmetry Weyl-semimetal to a semi-Dirac regime, i.e. a gapless semimetal with dispersion that is parabolic in one direction and conical in the other two. We point out the intensity of the induced anomalous high harmonics is high in the semi-Dirac regime. For Weyl semimetals, we reveal anomalous high harmonics are due to excitations at momenta where the dispersion is not strictly linear and that in the linearized low-energy theory the anomalous response is harmonic only. Our findings aid experimental characterization of Weyl, Dirac, and semi-Dirac semimetals.

16 pages, 12 figures

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