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Article Dans Une Revue Physical Review Research Année : 2022

Second-harmonic generation in the topological multifold semimetal RhSi

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Recent experiments in the topological Weyl semimetal TaAs have observed record-breaking second-harmonic generation, a non-linear optical response at $2\omega$ generated by an incoming light source at $\omega$. However, whether second-harmonic generation is enhanced in topological semimetals in general is a challenging open question because their band structure entangles the contributions arising from trivial bands and topological band crossings. In this work, we circumvent this problem by studying RhSi, a chiral topological semimetal with a simple band structure with topological multifold fermions close to the Fermi energy. We measure second-harmonic generation (SHG) in a wide frequency window, $\omega\in [0.27,1.5]$eV and, using first principle calculations, we establish that, due to their linear dispersion, the contribution of multifold fermions to SHG is subdominant as compared with other regions in the Brillouin zone. Our calculations suggest that parts of the bands where the dispersion is relatively flat contribute significantly to SHG. As a whole, our results suggest avenues to enhance SHG responses.

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hal-03386110 , version 1 (19-10-2021)

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Baozhu Lu, Sharareh Sayyad, Miguel Ángel Sánchez-Martínez, Kaustuv Manna, Claudia Felser, et al.. Second-harmonic generation in the topological multifold semimetal RhSi. Physical Review Research, 2022, 4 (2), pp.L022022. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevResearch.4.L022022⟩. ⟨hal-03386110⟩

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