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. 2017 Jul 6;8:15995. doi: 10.1038/ncomms15995

Figure 1. Intraband versus interband effects in Weyl semimetals.

Figure 1

When inversion and mirror symmetries are broken, Weyl nodes of opposite chiralities are generically at different energies. For intraband effects like optical gyrotropy, both nodes contribute and the response is proportional to the difference εLεR. For an interband effect like the CPGE, when 2|εL|<ħω<2|εR|, one Weyl node contributes exactly with the monopole charge, while the other has zero contribution due to Pauli blocking.