Artificial event horizons in Weyl semimetal heterostructures and their non-equilibrium signatures
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Abstract
We investigate transport in type-I/type-II Weyl semimetal heterostructures that realize effective black- or white-hole event horizons. We provide an exact solution to the scattering problem at normal incidence and low energies, both for a sharp and a slowly-varying Weyl cone tilt profile. In the latter case, we find two channels with transmission amplitudes analog to those of Hawking radiation. Whereas the Hawking-like signatures of these two channels cancel in equilibrium, we demonstrate that one can favor the contribution of either channel using a non-equilibrium state, either by irradiating the type-II region or by coupling it to a magnetic lead. This in turn gives rise to a peak in the two-terminal differential conductance which can serve as an experimental indicator of the artificial event horizon.
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Originalsprache | Englisch |
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Aufsatznummer | 095 |
Fachzeitschrift | SciPost physics |
Jahrgang | 11 |
Ausgabenummer | 5 |
Publikationsstatus | Veröffentlicht - Nov. 2021 |
Peer-Review-Status | Ja |