Published February 20, 2024 | Version v1
Journal article

Intrinsic nonlinear Ohmic current

  • 1. School of Electronic, Electrical and Communication Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
  • 2. School of Physical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
  • 3. CAS Center for Excellence in Topological Quantum Computation, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
  • 4. Kavli Institute for Theoretical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China

Description

It is known that intrinsic currents in magnetic metals often appear in the direction perpendicular to the external field for linear and nonlinear responses. Distinct from three kinds of known nonlinear currents, namely, the Drude contribution, the Berry curvature dipole induced current and the Berry connection polarization induced current, here we report a intrinsic nonlinear current with breaking time-reversal symmetry. This new kind of intrinsic nonlinear current from the nontrivial Berry connection polarizability may emerge in the longitudinal or transverse direction, and both are dissipative Ohmic currents. We unveil 66 magnetic point group symmetries that can accommodate such nonlinear current, and possible candidate materials are proposed. This theory is also applied to observe the nonlinear current we proposed in one- and two-dimensional Dirac systems as examples.

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1103/PhysRevB.109.085419;
arXiv
arXiv:2207.01182;
Crossref Funder ID
10.13039/501100001809; 10.13039/501100012166; 10.13039/501100002367;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review B
Journal Volume
109
Journal Issue
8
Journal Page Range
6 pgs.
ISSN
1550-235X

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Copyright
©2024 American Physical Society
Contract/Grant/Project number
11974348; 11674317; 11834014; 92165105; 2022YFA1402802; XDB28000000; XDB33000000; YSBR-057
Notes
Contact Email: zgzhu@ucas.ac.cn; Contact Email: gsu@ucas.ac.cn; Record automatically processed
Funding organization
National Natural Science Foundation of China; National Key Research and Development Program of China; Chinese Academy of Sciences