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Second Harmonic Generation in Topological Insulators under Quantizing Magnetic Fields

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Pith's one-line read This paper argues that a perpendicular magnetic field gives the Dirac surface states of a three-dimensional topological insulator a strong, tunable second-harmonic response through the combined action of hexagonal warping and Landau…

desk verdict Solid and internally consistent theory for SHG selection rules in TI surface Landau levels, but the 10^7 pm/V susceptibility claim rests on an unvalidated unit conversion. read the letter →

arxiv 2411.17346 v1 pith:MXNU63SO submitted 2024-11-26 cond-mat.mes-hall

Kainan Chang , Muhammad Zubair , Jin Luo Cheng , Wang-Kong Tse This is my paper · ORCID
classification cond-mat.mes-hall PACS 78.20.Ls42.65.Ky
keywords secondharmonicgenerationtopologicalinsulatorsurfacestatesLandaulevelshexagonalwarpingmagneto-opticalconductivityselectionrulesterahertznonlinearopticscircularpolarization
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This paper argues that the Dirac surface states of a three-dimensional topological insulator, placed in a perpendicular quantizing magnetic field, develop a strong and tunable second harmonic generation (SHG) response. The mechanism is that the hexagonal warping of the surface band structure becomes decisive once the continuum of Dirac states collapses into discrete Landau levels, providing the dipole matrix elements and selection rules that allow a circularly polarized photon to be up-converted. The paper derives these selection rules perturbatively and verifies them against numerically exact Landau-level spectra. The payoff is a predicted effective surface susceptibility up to about $10^7$ pm/V in the far-infrared and terahertz range, controlled by magnetic field and chemical potential. If correct, this makes magnetic-field-tuned topological insulator surfaces a practical nonlinear medium rather than a theoretical curiosity.

What carries the argument

The central object is the second-order magneto-optical conductivity $\sigma^{\tau\alpha\beta}(\omega)$ written in the circular-polarization basis, following from the density-matrix expression used in the paper: $$\$sigma^{{\tau\alpha\beta}}$(\omega) = -\frac{i $e^{4}$ B}{2\pi\$hbar^{2}$}\sum_{s_1s_2s} \frac{\hbar\omega_{s_2s_1}\$xi^{{\bar\tau}}$_{s_2s_1}(\xi^\alpha_{s_1s}\xi^\beta_{ss_2}+\xi^\beta_{s_1s}\xi^\alpha_{ss_2})}{2\hbar\omega-\hbar\omega_{s_1s_2}+i\Gamma} \left(\frac{f_{s_2s}}{\hbar\omega-\hbar\omega_{ss_2}+i\Gamma}-\frac{f_{ss_1}}{\hbar\omega-\hbar\omega_{s_1s}+i\Gamma}\right).$$ The machine that carries the argument is the Berry connection $\xi^+_{s_1s_2}=-il_c\int dx\,\Phi^\dagger_{s_1}\hat a^\dagger\Phi_{s_2}$ between Landau levels. Without warping it is nonzero only for $|s_1|-|s_2|=1$; the warping term $\sqrt{2}\lambda(\hbar/l_c)^3[(\hat a^\dagger)^3+\hat a^3]\sigma_z$ mixes levels differing by 3, so the connection becomes nonzero for $|s_1|-|s_2|=3l+1$. Inserting these into the $\Gamma\to0$ resonant decomposition splits the conductivity into one-photon ($S^\tau_{s_1s_2}$) and two-photon ($T^\tau_{s_1s_2}$) amplitudes, from which the selection rules and the assignment of every spectral peak follow.

What would settle it

At $B=5$ T with the chemical potential set so the highest occupied level is $s=0$, measure the SHG spectrum for circularly polarized normal incidence: the selection-rule picture predicts a first two-photon peak at $\hbar\omega=(\varepsilon_2-\varepsilon_0)/2$ (the $T^+_{2,0}$ transition) and a first one-photon peak at $\hbar\omega=\varepsilon_1-\varepsilon_0$, with the output in the opposite circular polarization. Observing no such peaks at these energies, or seeing the same polarization as the input, would refute the claim; a cheaper check is that all peak positions should scale as $\sqrt{B}$ at fixed level index.

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Core claim

The paper's central claim is that placing the surface states of a three-dimensional topological insulator in a perpendicular quantizing magnetic field produces a finite, highly tunable second harmonic response, even for normally incident light, and that the effect is controlled by the interplay of hexagonal warping and Landau quantization. With $C_{3v}$ symmetry reduced to $C_3$ by the field, the allowed conductivity components satisfy $\sigma_{xyy}=\sigma_{yyx}=\sigma_{yxy}=-\sigma_{xxx}$ and $\sigma_{yxx}=\sigma_{xxy}=\sigma_{xyx}=-\sigma_{yyy}$, so circularly polarized input generates a second-harmonic current in the opposite circular polarization. Computing the second-order magneto-optical conductivity from the density-matrix expression and diagonalizing the warped Landau Hamiltonian numerically, the paper finds sharp imaginary-part peaks at one-photon ($\hbar\omega=\hbar\omega_{s_1s_2}$) and two-photon ($\hbar\omega=\hbar\omega_{s_1s_2}/2$) inter-Landau-level resonances. A perturbation treatment in the warping parameter yields the selection rules $|s_1|-|s_2|=\tau$ or $-2\tau$ for one-photon and $-\tau$ or $2\tau$ for two-photon transitions, and identifies every peak with a specific transition (e.g. $T^+_{2,0}$, $T^+_{1,-2}$, $S^+_{s+1,-s}$). In weak fields the response becomes continuous with peaks at $\hbar\omega\approx|\mu|$ and $2|\mu|$, $\sigma_{xxx}\propto B$, and $\sigma_{yyy}$ roughly field-independent. The paper concludes that the effective surface susceptibility reaches about $10^7$ pm/V in the THz/IR, controlled by magnetic field and chemical potential.

Load-bearing premise

The paper assumes the surface SHG response can be summarized as an effective bulk susceptibility by dividing the two-dimensional sheet conductivity by a fixed thickness $d=\hbar v_F/\Delta_{\rm gap}\approx9.4$ Å, with no local-field correction, surface profile, or bulk screening; if the actual nonlinear thickness is much larger or the field distribution is nonuniform, the headline $10^7$ pm/V number changes by orders of magnitude.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • For a circularly polarized input at normal incidence, the SHG output has the opposite circular polarization; the allowed components reduce to $\sigma_{+--}$ and $\sigma_{-++}$, and their half-sum gives $\sigma_{xxx}$.
  • The SHG spectrum is discrete and magnetically tunable: as $B$ increases, all resonant peaks shift to higher photon energy and grow in amplitude because the Landau-level degeneracy increases.
  • Tuning the chemical potential through the Landau levels controls the response: Pauli blocking removes interband peaks, while intraband transitions around the highest occupied level add new peaks with large amplitudes.
  • In the limit of small magnetic field, the Landau levels merge into a continuum, the spectrum peaks at $\hbar\omega\approx|\mu|$ and $2|\mu|$, and $\sigma_{xxx}(\omega)$ is linear in $B$ while $\sigma_{yyy}(\omega)$ is essentially $B$-independent.
  • With the surface-state thickness estimated at $d\approx9.4$ Å, the effective SHG susceptibility reaches about $10^7$ pm/V in the THz/IR, exceeding many bulk nonlinear materials and comparable to twisted bilayer graphene.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Beyond the paper, the $10^7$ pm/V number is a conversion, not a direct observable; the robust prediction is the sheet conductivity itself, and the effective bulk susceptibility will move by orders of magnitude if the nonlinear thickness is set by the surface-state wavefunction penetration rather than by $d=\hbar v_F/\Delta_{\rm gap}$.
  • A clean experimental signature that avoids the thickness issue is the $\sqrt{B}$ scaling of the first few peak positions at fixed level index, which follows from the Landau-level energies and is independent of the susceptibility normalization.
  • The same $\tau$ and $-2\tau$/$2\tau$ selection-rule pattern should appear in any two-dimensional Dirac or Rashba system with cubic warping under a quantizing field; the specific transition labels will change, but the circular-polarization-dependent up-conversion mechanism is generic.
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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper studies second harmonic generation (SHG) from the surface states of three-dimensional topological insulators in a perpendicular quantizing magnetic field. Using a Fu-type surface Hamiltonian with hexagonal warping and Zeeman coupling, the authors construct Landau levels numerically and evaluate the second-order magneto-optical conductivity given in Eq. (4). A first-order perturbative treatment of the warping yields approximate selection rules: one-photon inter-Landau-level transitions require |s1|-|s2| = τ or -2τ, while two-photon transitions require |s1|-|s2| = -τ or 2τ, where τ labels circular polarization. The numerical spectra are then interpreted by assigning resonant peaks to these one- and two-photon transitions, with additional peaks appearing for different chemical potentials via Pauli blocking and intraband transitions. The paper's main quantitative claim is that the effective surface SHG susceptibility can reach about 10^7 pm/V in the terahertz/infrared range, tunable by magnetic field and doping.

Significance. If the spectral and selection-rule results are correct, the paper provides a concrete route to tunable THz/IR second-harmonic generation from topological surface Dirac electrons and establishes hexagonal warping as the essential symmetry-breaking ingredient. The strengths of the manuscript are its analytical selection rules, the internal consistency between the perturbative transition amplitudes and the numerically computed peak positions, the finite-temperature Fermi-Dirac treatment, and the independent check against the gapped-graphene limit at small magnetic field. The paper also makes clear which response tensor components are allowed by the reduced C3 symmetry. The main quantitative claim, however, rests on an unvalidated conversion from a 2D sheet conductivity to a bulk-like χ, and the numerical diagonalization lacks convergence documentation; both points need addressing before the headline result can be accepted.

major comments (3)
  1. [Section 3.2] The quantitative headline that the effective SHG susceptibility reaches about 10^7 pm/V is obtained by dividing the 2D sheet conductivity by a thickness d = ℏv_F/Δ_gap ≈ 9.4 Å. This conversion is not derived in the paper: the surface-state current is a 2D sheet with a material-specific wavefunction decay profile, not a homogeneous slab, and the vacuum/TI interface is subject to local-field, dielectric-screening, and radiation-boundary effects that are absent from Eq. (4). The measurable quantity is the SHG radiated by a surface current, which is not automatically expressible as a bulk χ. Because the comparison to conventional bulk nonlinear materials and to twisted bilayer graphene in Refs. [46]-[52] is a central selling point, the authors should either carry out a proper electromagnetic calculation of the reflected SHG from the 2D nonlinear sheet or explicitly reframe the result as a 2D nonlinear conductivity with an honest discussion of the assumed effective thickness. As written, the claim is inversely proportional to an arbitrary d; an order-of-magnitude larger effective thickness would erase the advertised enhancement.
  2. [Section 3.2]
  3. [Section 3.1]
minor comments (5)
  1. [Equation (4) and following text]
  2. [References [19] and [20]]
  3. [Figure 4 caption]
  4. [Figure 2 caption]
  5. [Introduction]

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity: minor self-citations are not load-bearing; the central SHG calculation is self-contained.

full rationale

The derivation chain is not circular. The only imported ingredient with author overlap is Eq. (4), the second-order magneto-optical conductivity, quoted from Ref. [42] (Cheng and Guo, Phys. Rev. B 97, 125417 (2018)), whose first author J. L. Cheng is also an author of the present paper. This self-citation is not load-bearing in a circular sense: Eq. (4) is a parameter-free microscopic density-matrix expression depending only on e, B, hbar, the Landau-level spectrum, and Berry connections, and it is not fitted or adjusted to reproduce the SHG peaks claimed here. The paper then computes the TI Landau levels from the Fu-model Hamiltonian (Eqs. (1)-(2)), derives the Berry-connection selection rule |s1|-|s2| = 3l+1 perturbatively (Eqs. (8)-(11)), and derives the one- and two-photon SHG selection rules |s1|-|s2| = tau or -2 tau and -tau or 2 tau from Eq. (4) in the Gamma->0 limit (Eqs. (12)-(14)). These are analytical derivations, not parameter fits. The small-B limit is checked against gapped graphene (Ref. [45]), providing an external consistency benchmark. The 10^7 pm/V susceptibility claim is obtained by dividing the 2D sheet conductivity by an assumed surface-state thickness d = hbar v_F / Delta_gap ~ 9.4 A; this is a unit-conversion/model assumption that carries quantitative risk, but it is not a circular reduction because d is not derived from, or fitted to, the SHG response itself. The only mild circularity-adjacent feature is reliance on a co-authored formula for the central response function, which motivates a score of 2 rather than 0; it does not make the central result equivalent to its inputs.

Assumptions & free parameters 3 free parameters · 4 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The central claim rests on a published second-order conductivity formula (self-cited Ref. 42), a single-particle Fu model with a phenomenological Gamma, and a thickness-based conversion to effective 3D susceptibility. No new particles, forces, or conserved quantities are posited. Material parameters vF, lambda, and g are treated as literature inputs and are not listed as free parameters; the hidden numerical truncation, Gamma, and the conversion thickness are the real free choices.

free parameters (3)
  • Phenomenological relaxation energy Gamma = 1.3 meV (chosen, no cited source)
    Inserted as iGamma in Eq. (4); controls linewidth and peak amplitude, and therefore the magnitude of the 'giant susceptibility' claim. The paper does not justify this value.
  • Surface-state thickness d for 2D to 3D conversion = 9.4 Angstrom, estimated as hbar vF / Delta_gap
    Used only in the final conversion from 2D sheet conductivity to 3D susceptibility; the 10^7 pm/V headline depends linearly on this number.
  • Oscillator-basis truncation cutoff for numerical diagonalization = not stated
    The infinite harmonic oscillator basis in the numerical Landau-level diagonalization must be truncated, but no cutoff or convergence study is reported, so the 'numerically exact' spectra may depend on this hidden parameter.
assumptions (4)
  • domain assumption Eq. (4), the microscopic second-order magneto-optical conductivity from Ref. [42], is valid for the surface states under Landau quantization.
    The paper does not re-derive the density-matrix formula; the entire numerical SHG spectrum is computed from this expression.
  • domain assumption The two-band Fu model Hamiltonian with minimal coupling and the operator ordering used in Eqs. (2a)-(2c) describes the surface states up to the photon energies considered.
    The model is standard for Bi2Se3 but neglects bulk states, band bending, and electron interactions; invoked in Sec. 2.
  • domain assumption The numerical diagonalization over a truncated harmonic oscillator basis converges, so the spectra can be called 'exact'.
    Sec. 3.2 claims exact numerical conductivities but gives no truncation cutoff or convergence check.
  • domain assumption A single phenomenological relaxation rate Gamma accounts for all dephasing and broadening.
    Gamma is inserted as iGamma in Eq. (4); peak heights and the magnitude of the response depend on it.

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We theoretically investigate the second harmonic generation (SHG) of topological insulator surface states in a perpendicular magnetic field. Our theory is based on the microscopic expression of the second-order magneto-optical conductivity developed from the density matrix formalism, taking into account hexagonal warping effects on the surface states' band structure. Using numerically exact Landau level energies and wavefunctions including hexagonal warping, we calculate the spectrum of SHG conductivities under normal incidence for different values of magnetic field and chemical potential. The imaginary parts of the SHG conductivities show prominent resonant peaks corresponding to one-photon and two-photon inter-Landau level transitions. Treating the hexagonal warping term perturbatively, these transitions are clarified analytically within a perturbation theory from which approximate selection rules for the allowable optical transitions for SHG are determined. Our results show extremely high SHG susceptibility that is easily tunable by magnetic field and doping level for topological surface states in the far-infrared regime, exceeding that of many conventional nonlinear materials. This work highlights the key role of hexagonal warping effects in generating second-order optical responses and provides new insights on the nonlinear magneto-optical properties of the topological insulators.

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Figure 1. (a) Eigenenergies εs of the Landau levels as a function of the magnetic field B. The index s is also labeled. Selection rules for one- and two-photon resonant transitions between different Landau levels indicating by horizontal lines (b) S + s1s2 and T − s1s2 , and (c) T + s1s2 and S − s1s2 . The band structure at zero magnetic field is also illustrated. The red (blue) arrows denote the interband (intraband) transit… view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Spectra for SHG conductivity under magnetic field [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_2.png] view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. (a) SHG spectra σ +−− with the highest filled Landau level f = −1, 0, 1. Intraband resonant transitions (b) T − −s,−s−2 , S − −s,−s−1 , T + s+3,s+1, S + s+2,s+1, (c) T + −s,−s−1 , S + −s,−s−2 , T − s+2,s+1, and S − s+3,s+1 for s ≥ 0 are plotted as functions of the resonant transition energies. The quantities with s = 0 are marked. (d, e) SHG conductivities σ +−− for different values of f. 14 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figure… view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Imaginary part of SHG conductivities (a) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_4.png]

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