Magnetic Weyl semimetals as a source of circularly polarized THz radiation
Jeremy Hansen,
Kazuki Ikeda,
Dmitri E. Kharzeev,
Qiang Li,
Kirill Tuchin
Affiliations
Jeremy Hansen
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, 50011, USA
Kazuki Ikeda
Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA 02125, USA; Co-design Center for Quantum Advantage, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-3800, USA; Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, NY 11794-3800, USA
Dmitri E. Kharzeev
Co-design Center for Quantum Advantage, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-3800, USA; Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, NY 11794-3800, USA; Department of Physics and RIKEN-BNL Research Center, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973, USA
Qiang Li
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, NY 11794-3800, USA; Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973, USA
Kirill Tuchin
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, 50011, USA; Corresponding author.
We propose to use the electromagnetic radiation induced by a few MeV electron beam in magnetic Weyl semimetals as a source of the circularly polarized photons in the THz frequency range.