All-Electrostatic Valley Filtering by Barrier Rotation in Tilted Dirac/Weyl Semimetals

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Main Author: Yesilyurt, Can
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contents Charge carriers in Dirac/Weyl semimetals with tilted anisotropic energy dispersion exhibit valley-dependent refraction and reflection at electrostatic barrier interfaces. Here, we show that an angled barrier interface provides a purely electrostatic route to valley filtering, producing finite valley-polarized conductance. We develop a generalized transfer-matrix formalism for the tilted, anisotropic Dirac Hamiltonian, extended to treat electrostatic barriers at arbitrary angles, and calculate the transmission in the rotated-barrier frame. We also present simulated valley-resolved trajectories in a finite device geometry, which clearly show that one valley is selectively transmitted, whereas the other is predominantly reflected by the angled barrier, without secondary effects such as real or pseudo-magnetic fields.
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spellingShingle All-Electrostatic Valley Filtering by Barrier Rotation in Tilted Dirac/Weyl Semimetals
Yesilyurt, Can
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Materials Science
Charge carriers in Dirac/Weyl semimetals with tilted anisotropic energy dispersion exhibit valley-dependent refraction and reflection at electrostatic barrier interfaces. Here, we show that an angled barrier interface provides a purely electrostatic route to valley filtering, producing finite valley-polarized conductance. We develop a generalized transfer-matrix formalism for the tilted, anisotropic Dirac Hamiltonian, extended to treat electrostatic barriers at arbitrary angles, and calculate the transmission in the rotated-barrier frame. We also present simulated valley-resolved trajectories in a finite device geometry, which clearly show that one valley is selectively transmitted, whereas the other is predominantly reflected by the angled barrier, without secondary effects such as real or pseudo-magnetic fields.
title All-Electrostatic Valley Filtering by Barrier Rotation in Tilted Dirac/Weyl Semimetals
topic Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Materials Science
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.03117