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Quantum Nonlinear Hall Effect Induced by Berry Curvature Dipole in Time-Reversal Invariant Materials

Quantum Nonlinear Hall Effect Induced by Berry Curvature Dipole in Time-Reversal Invariant Materials

Quantum Nonlinear Hall Effect Induced by Berry Curvature Dipole in Time-Reversal Invariant Materials

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Citation Sodemann, Inti, and Liang Fu. “Quantum Nonlinear Hall Effect Induced by Berry Curvature Dipole in Time-Reversal Invariant Materials.” Physical Review Letters 115, no. 21 (November 2015). © 2015 American Physical Society

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Quantum Nonlinear Hall Effect Induced by Berry Curvature Dipole in Time-Reversal Invariant Materials

Inti Sodemann and Liang Fu Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA (Received 11 August 2015; published 20 November 2015) It is well known that a nonvanishing Hall conductivity requires broken time-reversal symmetry. However, in this work, we demonstrate that Hall-like currents can occur in second-order response to external electric fields in a wide class of time-reversal invariant and inversion breaking materials, at both zero and twice the driving frequency. This nonlinear Hall effect has a quantum origin arising from the dipole moment of the Berry curvature in momentum space, which generates a net anomalous velocity when the system is in a current-carrying state. The nonlinear Hall coefficient is a rank-two pseudotensor, whose form is determined by point group symmetry. We discus optimal conditions to observe this effect and propose candidate two- and three-dimensional materials, including topological crystalline insulators, transition metal dichalcogenides, and Weyl .

DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.216806 PACS numbers: 73.43.-f, 03.65.Vf, 72.15.-v, 72.20.My

Introduction.—The Hall conductivity of an nonequilibrium current-carrying distribution is not sym- system whose Hamiltonian is invariant under time-reversal metric under k → −k, the integral of the Berry curvature symmetry is forced to vanish. Crystals with sufficiently low weighed by it can be finite, leading to a net anomalous symmetry can have resistivity tensors which are aniso- velocity and hence a transverse current. tropic, but Onsager’s reciprocity relations [1] force the Our study builds upon a seminal work by Moore and conductivity to be a symmetric tensor in the presence of Orenstein [3], which predicted a dc photocurrent in time-reversal symmetry. Hence, when the is quantum wells without inversion symmetry due to the along its principal axes the current and the electric field are anomalous velocity associated with the Berry phase. The collinear, at least to the first order in electric fields. quantum nonlinear Hall effect presented here can be However, this constraint is only about the linear response regarded as a generalization of this effect. We predict that and does not necessarily enforce the full current to flow an oscillating electric field can generate a transverse current collinearly with the local electric field. at both zero and twice the frequency in two- and three- In this Letter we study a special type of such nonlinear dimensional materials with a large class of crystal point Hall-like currents. We will demonstrate that metals without group symmetries. In particular, the second harmonic inversion symmetry can have a nonlinear Hall-like current generation is a distinctive signature that may facilitate arising from the Berry curvature in momentum space. The the experimental detection of the quantum nonlinear Hall conventional Hall conductivity can be viewed as the zero- effect. Additionally, the effect does remain finite in the dc order moment of the Berry curvature over occupied states, limit of the applied electric field. namely, as an integral of the Berry curvature within the General theory.—The electric is given by metal’s Fermi surface. The effect we discuss here is the integral of the physical velocity of the va determined by a pseudotensorial quantity that measures weighed by their occupation function fðkÞ: a first-order moment of the Berry curvature over the Z occupied states, and hence we call it the Berry curvature ja ¼ −e fðkÞva: ð1Þ dipole. This nonlinear Hall effect has a quantum origin k arising from the anomalous velocity of Bloch electrons generated by the Berry curvature [2], but it is not expected For simplicity, we imagine a single bandR systemR but allow it d d to be quantized. to be two or three dimensional: k ≡ d k=ð2πÞ . The In a time-reversal invariant system, the Berry curvature is velocity contains two contributions, namely, the group odd in momentum space, ΩaðkÞ¼−Ωað−kÞ, and hence its velocity of the electron wave and the anomalous velocity integral weighed by the equilibrium Fermi distribution is arising from the Berry curvature [2] (ℏ ¼ 1): forced to vanish, because Kramers pair states at k and −k v ∂ ϵ k ε Ω k_ ; are equally occupied. However, the second-order response a ¼ a ð Þþ abc b c ð2Þ is determined by the integral of the Berry curvature ∂ ∂=∂ ϵ Ω evaluated in the nonequilibrium distribution of electrons where a ¼ ka , and b are the energy dispersion and computed to first order in the electric field. Since the the Berry curvature of the electrons in question:

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Ωa ≡ εabc∂bAc;Ac ≡ −ihukj∂cjuki: ð3Þ The presence of the factor ∂bf0 will guarantee that only states close to the Fermi surface will contribute to the Within the Boltzmann picture of transport, the canonical integral in the low limit, so that this response is momentum of electrons changes in time in response to the a Fermi property [6]. Equation (8) can be rewritten as external electromagnetic fields. In the absence of external follows: Z magnetic fields, the change of momentum is e3τ χ −ε f ∂ Ω : abc ¼ adc 0ð b dÞ ð9Þ _ 2ð1 þ iωτÞ k kc ¼ −eEcðtÞ; ð4Þ This expression [Eq. (9)] for the nonlinear conductivity E t E eiωt E ∈ C where cð Þ¼Ref c g, with c the driving tensor, χabc, is the first main result of this work. It shows electric field which oscillates harmonically in time but that χabc is proportional to the dipole moment of the Berry is uniform in space. In the relaxation time approximation, curvature over the occupied states, defined as the Boltzmann equation for the distribution of electrons Z is [4] Dab ¼ f0ð∂aΩbÞ: ð10Þ k −eτEa∂af þ τ∂tf ¼ f0 − f; ð5Þ It is interesting to note that this tensor is dimensionless in where f0 is the equilibrium distribution in the absence of three dimensions. At frequencies above the width of the ωτ ≫ 1 external fields. We are interested in computing the response Drude peak and below the interband transition χ to second order in the electric field; hence, we expand the threshold, the prefactor in abc becomes independent of the scattering time, so that χabc directly measures the quantum distribution up to second order: f ¼ Reff0 þ f1 þ f2g, n geometry of the Bloch states. In the dc limit or for linearly where the term fn is understood to vanish as E . One finds a recursive structure: polarized electric fields, the Berry curvature dipole term always produces a current that is orthogonal to the electric field jaEa ¼ 0 [7]. ω iωt ω eτEa∂af0 f1 ¼ f1 e ;f1 ¼ ; To close this section, we wish to remark that there exist 1 þ iωτ additional second-order corrections to the current arising eτ 2EE ∂ f 0 2ω 2iωt 0 ð Þ a b ab 0 from modifications to Eq. (2) that are intrinsic to the band f2 ¼ f2 þ f2 e ;f2 ¼ ; 2ð1 þ iωτÞ structure, containing no powers of the scattering time τ [8]; 2 however, these contributions vanish for time-reversal invari- 2ω ðeτÞ EaEb∂abf0 f2 ¼ : ð6Þ ant systems. Other type of rectifications might arise in 2ð1 þ iωτÞð1 þ 2iωτÞ systems with an inversion asymmetric scattering rate, 0 0 2ω 2iωt namely, when the scattering from k to k has a different Writing the current as ja Re ja ja e , one obtains ¼ f þ g rate than that from −k to −k0, which produces a kind of Z Z ratchet effect [9]. These semiclassical Berry-phase indepen- e2 j0 ε Ω Efω − e f0∂ ϵ k ; dent contributions are distinguished from the quantum a ¼ 2 abc b c 1 2 a ð Þ Zk Zk nonlinear Hall effect discussed in this work because they e2 are expected to scale as τ2. j2ω ε Ω E fω − e f2ω∂ ϵ k : a ¼ abc b c 1 2 a ð Þ ð7Þ — 2 k k Berry curvature dipole in three dimensions. Let us explore the constraints imposed by crystal point sym- 0 D The term ja describes a rectified current while the term metries on the Berry curvature dipole tensor ab. A point 2ω symmetry is described by an orthogonal matrix S. Because ja describes the second harmonic. The second terms that appear in Eq. (7) are completely semiclassical and do not the Berry curvature is a pseudovector, the Berry curvature require the presence of Berry curvature. However, within dipole transforms as a pseudotensor. Hence, crystal sym- the approximation of a constant τ, one finds that these metries impose constraints of the form nonlinear terms are proportional to the integral of a three- D ¼ detðSÞSDST: ð11Þ index tensor, ∂aϵðkÞ∂bcf0ðkÞ, which is odd under time reversal and, hence, they are forced to vanish. Therefore, To determine which components of this tensor are nonzero, the only surviving terms are those associated with the Berry 0 2ω it is convenient to decompose it into symmetric and curvature. By writing ja ¼ χ EbEc, ja ¼ χ EbEc, one T abc abc antisymmetric parts, D ¼ðD D Þ=2, which transform has [5] independently under symmetry operations. The antisym- Z e3τ metric part of a pseudotensor transforms as a vector, as can χ ε ∂ f Ω : abc ¼ adc ð b 0Þ d ð8Þ be verified from Eq. (11). The components of this vector 2ð1 þ iωτÞ k d ≡ ϵ D− =2 can be taken to be a abc bc . Therefore, for it to be

216806-2 week ending PRL 115, 216806 (2015) PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 20 NOVEMBER 2015 nonzero the crystal must have a polar axis. From the 32 positive eigenvalue and the orientation of the corresponding crystallographic point groups, 10 allow for a polar axis, eigenvector within the rotoreflection plane. namely, fCn;Cnvg, with n ¼ 1, 2, 3, 4, 6. The vector da Berry curvature dipole in two dimensions.—In two- will be oriented along such axis. The contribution to the dimensional crystals the Berry curvature behaves as a current from this antisymmetric part can be written in pseudoscalar (only the out-of-plane component is nonzero); vector notation as hence, the Berry curvature dipole behaves as a pseudo- vector contained in the two-dimensional plane: e3τ ~j0 E~ d~ E~ ; Z ¼ 2 1 iωτ × ð × Þ ð þ Þ Da ¼ f0ð∂aΩzÞ: ð13Þ 3 k 2ω e τ ~ ~ ~j ¼ E × ðd~ × EÞ: ð12Þ 2ð1 þ iωτÞ This vector has units of length. Therefore, symmetry constraints are more severe in two dimensions. In fact, Let us now determine which crystals allow for a nonzero the largest symmetry of a 2D crystal that allows for a symmetric part Dþ. We require the crystal to be inversion nonvanishing Berry curvature dipole is a single mirror line asymmetric, for otherwise the Berry curvature would be (i.e., a mirror plane that is orthogonal to the 2D crystal), identically zero due to time-reversal symmetry. Any real which would force Da to be orthogonal to it. In vector symmetric matrix can be diagonalized and has a real notation, the current can be written as spectrum. Let us denote its eigenvalues and eigenvectors P 3 þ 3 T e τ δi ei D δieie ~0 ~ ~ ~ by , , respectively: ¼ i¼1 i . All inversion j ¼ zˆ × E ðD · EÞ; asymmetric crystals without left-handed symmetries allow 2ð1 þ iωτÞ for Dþ to be nonzero, but might impose constraints on its 3 ~2ω e τ ~ ~ ~ eigenvectors to lie along the principal symmetry axis and j ¼ zˆ × EðD · EÞ: ð14Þ 2ð1 þ iωτÞ some of its eigenvalues to be degenerate, much in the same way they constrain an ordinary tensor. Such noncentro- The presence of a single mirror symmetry would force the symmetric crystal point groups without left-handed sym- linear conductivity tensor to have its principal axes aligned metries are fO; T; C1;Cn;Dng, with n ¼ 2,3,4,6. with the mirror line. Consequently, according to Eq. (14), However, under left-handed symmetries (det S ¼ −1) when the driving electric field is aligned with the direction Dþ the transformations of differ from those of an ordinary of the Berry curvature dipole vector D~ , all the current that tensor. Equation (11) implies that under a left-handed flows orthogonal to it would arise solely from the Berry symmetry operation the spectrum goes to minus itself: curvature dipole term. fδ1; δ2; δ3g → f−δ1; −δ2; −δ3g. Therefore, for it to remain Candidate materials.—Berry curvature often concen- invariant as a set, it must have the form trates in small regions in momentum space where two or fδ1; δ2; δ3g¼fδ; 0; −δg. In such a case the eigenvectors more bands cross or nearly cross. Therefore, Dirac and would transform as Se1 ¼e3, Se3 ¼e1, Se2 ¼e2. Weyl materials are excellent candidates to observe the Therefore, any crystal with a left-handed symmetry and an quantum nonlinear Hall effect predicted in this work. n-fold rotation axis with n ≥ 3 will force the tensor Dþ to Moreover, since this effect requires a Berry curvature identically vanish, since such n-fold rotation would addi- dipole, it is advantageous to choose low-symmetry crystals tionally force the eigenvectors contained within the invari- with tilted Dirac or Weyl point (see below). We propose ant plane to be degenerate. For a mirror symmetry, the null three classes of candidate materials: topological crystalline eigenvector has to be parallel to the mirror plane, and the insulators (TCIs), two-dimensional transition metal dichal- eigenvectors with opposite eigenvalues must be at π=4 cogenides, and three-dimensional Weyl semimetals. angles from such plane, so that they are swapped under the The surface of topological crystalline insulators hosts mirror operation. Therefore, the only noncentrosymmetric massless Dirac fermions protected by mirror symmetries crystals with mirror symmetries that allow for a nonzero [11,12]. In particular, the [001] surface of TCIs SnTe, þ þ D are C1v and C2v [10].ForC1v symmetry, D has two Pb1−xSnxTe, and Pb1−xSnxSe hosts four massless Dirac independent parameters which can be taken to be the fermions [13] protected by two mirror symmetries. Pairs of positive eigenvalue and the orientation of the null eigen- Dirac cones with -momentum locking are located near ¯ vector within the mirror plane. For C2v there is only one the X points of the surface Brillouin zone, forming a independent parameter, which can be taken to be the Kramers pair. At low the surface undergoes a positive eigenvalue, since the null eigenvector is forced structural transition into a ferroelectric state and one of the to lie along the rotation axis. Finally, the point group S4, mirror symmetries is spontaneously broken [14,15], while which contains a single left-handed fourfold rotoreflection the other remains intact. As a result, two of the surface symmetry, allows for a nonzero Dþ, whose null eigenvector Dirac cones become massive, while the other two remain is forced to lie along the rotoreflection axis. Dþ has two massless [16] (see inset in Fig. 1). Since the remaining independent parameters for S4, which can be taken to be the massless Dirac points have vanishing Berry curvature, it is

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02 2 0 an ellipse in the primed coordinates, kx =γx þðkyþ pffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffi 2 2 2 02 0 sk0Þ =γy ¼ 1, where γx ¼ γ=v, γy ¼γ= v −α , k0 ¼μα = ffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffi pffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffi v2 −α02 v pv v γ μ2 v2 − α02 k2 − β2 ð pÞ,ffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffi¼ x y, ¼ þð Þ 0 , 0 2 02 α ¼ α vx=vy. The condition v > α is equivalent to 2 2 vy > α and is needed for the stability of the tilted Dirac 2 2 02 2 2 cones. The condition μ þðv − α Þk0 > β states that the chemical potential is outside the gap, so that there is a finite density of massive Dirac fermions. The surviving mirror symmetry, which takes ky → −ky, dictates that only the y component of the Berry curvature dipole is nonzero, and is found to be

3v2nβα μ 1 u2 D j jð þ Þ ; FIG. 1 (color online). Berry curvature dipole dependence on y ¼ 2 2 2 2 2 5=2 ð18Þ chemical potential μ. Upper inset: Surface Brillouin zone of TCI ½μ ð1 þ u Þð1 þ 2u Þ − u β SnTe or (Pb,Sn)Se. The blue arrow indicates the direction of the pffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffi R ferroelectric distortion. Lower inset: Brillouin zone of monolayer u α0= v2 − α02 n d2k= 2π 2 where ¼ and ¼ jεsðkÞj

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