Bulletin of the American Physical Society
APS March Meeting 2024
Monday–Friday, March 4–8, 2024; Minneapolis & Virtual
Session N07: Gravitational and High Energy Analogs in Condensed Matter
11:30 AM–2:06 PM,
Wednesday, March 6, 2024
Room: L100H
Sponsoring
Unit:
DCMP
Chair: Justin Wilson, Louisiana State University
Abstract: N07.00001 : Axion electrodynamics in curved emergent spacetime*
11:30 AM–11:42 AM
Presenter:
Emily M Been
(University of California, Los Angeles)
Authors:
Emily M Been
(University of California, Los Angeles)
Olivia Liebman
(University of California, Los Angeles)
Jonathan B Curtis
(University of California, Los Angeles)
Ioannis Petrides
(University of California, Los Angeles)
Prineha Narang
(University of California, Los Angeles)
One instance of the dynamical axion field manifests as the phase of the charge density wave in Weyl semimetals. Deformations of the Weyl cones can lead to concepts of emergent spacetimes, which can be modulated by strain, inhomogeneities, and external drives. Such time-reversal-symmetry breaking fields or inversion-symmetry breaking fields allow the condensed matter system to take on a variety of spacetime environments beyond Minkowski flat space, e.g. a black hole event horizon. In this way, we can create in a crystal a unique sandbox to explore the effects of spatial curvature on topological and axion responses.
*This work is supported by the Quantum Science Center (QSC), a National Quantum Information Science Research Center of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
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