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Three-dimensional chiral Veselago lensing

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arxiv 2108.09261 v2 pith:YBQJDNYS submitted 2021-08-20 cond-mat.mes-hall

Three-dimensional chiral Veselago lensing

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keywords veselagochirallenslensingchiralitythree-dimensionalelectronicelectrons
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The effect by which light focuses upon entering a medium with a negative refractive index, known as Veselago lensing, may enable optical imaging below the diffraction limit. Similarly, focusing electrons across a $pn$-junction could realize a technologically promising electronic Veselago lens. However, its scope remains limited by the lack of three-dimensional platforms and its insensitivity to computational degrees of freedom, like spin or chirality. Here we propose a single-material three-dimensional electronic Veselago lens that selectively focuses electrons of a given chirality. Using the chiral anomaly of topological semimetals it is possible to create a sharp $pn$-junction for a single chirality, a chiral Veselago lens, and tune it with a magnetic field to an ideal lensing condition. We estimate that chiral Veselago lensing is observable in non-local transport and spectroscopy experiments. In particular we show that the chiral Veselago lens leads to giant non-local magnetoresistance.

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