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[Prof. Tae-Hwan Kim] Circular Dichroism of Emergent Chiral Stacking Or…

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Journal Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 046401
Professor in chargeProf. Tae-Hwan Kim
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Release date2022-01-27

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Caption: (a) Left- and (b) right-chiral stacking orders and their electronic band structures of 1D charge density waves. (c) 2D circular dichroism maps of (left/right panels) left/right-chiral stacking orders in the 1st Brillouin zones. 


[Prof. Tae-Hwan Kim]Circular Dichroism of Emergent Chiral Stacking Orders in Quasi-One-Dimensional Charge Density Waves


Chirality-driven optical properties in charge density waves are of fundamental and practical importance. Here, we investigate the interaction between circularly polarized light and emergent chiral stacking orders in quasi-one-dimensional (quasi-1D) charge-density waves (CDWs) with density-functional theory calculations. In our specific system, self-assembled In nanowires on a Si(111) surface, spontaneous mirror symmetry breaking leads to four symmetrically distinct degenerate quasi-1D CDW structures, which exhibit geometrical chirality. Such geometrical chirality may naturally induce optically active phenomena even when the quasi-1D CDW structures are stacked perpendicular to the CDW chain direction. Indeed, we find that left- and right-chiral stacking orders show distinct circular dichroism responses while a nonchiral stacking order has no circular dichroism. Such optical responses are attributed to the existence of glide mirror symmetry of the CDW stacking orders. Our findings suggest that the CDW chiral stacking orders can lead to diverse active optical phenomena such as chirality-dependent circular dichroism, which can be observed in scanning tunneling luminescence measurements with circularly polarized light.

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