Nonreciprocal Nonlinear Responses in Moving Charge Density Waves

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Hauptverfasser: Xie, Ying-Ming, Isobe, Hiroki, Nagaosa, Naoto
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author Xie, Ying-Ming
Isobe, Hiroki
Nagaosa, Naoto
author_facet Xie, Ying-Ming
Isobe, Hiroki
Nagaosa, Naoto
contents The incommensurate charge density wave states (CDWs) can exhibit steady motion in the flow limit after depinning, behaving as a nonequilibrium system with time-dependent states. Since the moving CDW, like an electric current, breaks both time-reversal and inversion symmetries, one may speculate the emergence of nonreciprocal nonlinear responses from such motion. However, the moving CDW order parameter is intrinsically time-dependent in the lab frame, and it is known to be challenging to evaluate the responses of such a time-varying system. In this work, following the principle of Galilean relativity, we resolve this time-dependent hard problem in the lab frame by mapping the system to the comoving frame with static CDW states through the Galilean transformation. We explicitly show that the nonreciprocal nonlinear responses would be generated by the movement of CDW states through violating Galilean relativity.
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spellingShingle Nonreciprocal Nonlinear Responses in Moving Charge Density Waves
Xie, Ying-Ming
Isobe, Hiroki
Nagaosa, Naoto
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Materials Science
Strongly Correlated Electrons
The incommensurate charge density wave states (CDWs) can exhibit steady motion in the flow limit after depinning, behaving as a nonequilibrium system with time-dependent states. Since the moving CDW, like an electric current, breaks both time-reversal and inversion symmetries, one may speculate the emergence of nonreciprocal nonlinear responses from such motion. However, the moving CDW order parameter is intrinsically time-dependent in the lab frame, and it is known to be challenging to evaluate the responses of such a time-varying system. In this work, following the principle of Galilean relativity, we resolve this time-dependent hard problem in the lab frame by mapping the system to the comoving frame with static CDW states through the Galilean transformation. We explicitly show that the nonreciprocal nonlinear responses would be generated by the movement of CDW states through violating Galilean relativity.
title Nonreciprocal Nonlinear Responses in Moving Charge Density Waves
topic Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Materials Science
Strongly Correlated Electrons
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04789