2019/05/31 by Peng Rao, Inti Sodemann
Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Condensed Matter Physics #Condensed matter physics #Cyclotron #Cyclotron resonance #Electron #Fermion #Gapless playback #Lattice (music) #Organic and Molecular Conductors Research #Physics #Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism #Quantum mechanics #Topological insulator #Valence (chemistry) #cond-mat.str-el
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevb.100.155150
published as Phys. Rev. B 100, 155150 (2019)
openalex publication_date 2019/10/31 · arxiv created 2019/11/04 · arxiv updated 2019/11/05 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
A major obstacle to identify exotic quantum phases of matter featuring spin-charge separation above one-dimension is the lack of tailored probes allowing to establish their presence in correlated materials. Here we propose an optoelectronic response that could allow to pinpoint the presence of certain spin-charge separated states with emergent neutral gapless fermions in two and three-dimensional materials. We show that even though these states behave like insulators under static electric fields, they can display clear cyclotron resonance peaks in their light absorption spectrum under static magnetic fields, but typically the principal Kohn mode will be missing in comparison to ordinary metals. This distinctive phenomenon could be tested in materials such as triangular lattice organics, three-dimensional mixed valence insulators YbB12 and SmB6, and transition metal dichalcogenides 1T-TaS2 and 1T-TaSe2.