Plasmon modes in tilted three-dimensional nodal-ring semimetals. II. Vortex nodal ring
Abstract
We investigate collective charge excitations in three-dimensional semimetals with dipole-like Berry-curvature (BC) profiles, focusing on vortex nodal-ring semimetals (VNRs) and Hopf semimetals (HSMs). The VNR hosts a continuous ring of dipole-like BC sources generated by its winding pseudospin texture, whereas the HSM hosts an ideal BC dipole. This allows us to examine how distinct realisations of dipole-like BC structure affect collective charge dynamics. While plasmon modes in π«π―-symmetric nodal-ring semimetals (PTNRs) and their gapped cousins were studied in a companion work, arXiv:2609.35373, here we analyse the density response, Drude weights, dielectric function, and plasmon modes of VNRs and HSMs at low doping within the random-phase approximation. For VNRs, we consider untilted, in-plane tilted, and axially tilted systems. Although VNR and PTNR have identical energy dispersions, their distinct eigenstates introduce a toroidal-angle dependence in the band-overlap factor, yielding additional interband contributions for in-plane wavevectors and weak corrections to the screened plasmon frequencies. The toroidal Fermi surface also produces intrinsically anisotropic bare plasmons. In contrast, HSMs have isotropic bare plasmons, with anisotropy arising only through their interband response. Our results show that collective charge dynamics can distinguish different realisations of dipole-like BC structure and reveal pseudospin information beyond the single-particle dispersion.
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BibTeX
@misc{mandal2026plasmon,
title = {{Plasmon modes in tilted three-dimensional nodal-ring semimetals. II. Vortex nodal ring}},
author = {Ipsita Mandal},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.03188},
eprint = {2610.03188},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.03188},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Plasmon modes in tilted three-dimensional nodal-ring semimetals. II. Vortex nodal ring
AU - Ipsita Mandal
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/06
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.03188
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.03188
AB - We investigate collective charge excitations in three-dimensional semimetals with dipole-like Berry-curvature (BC) profiles, focusing on vortex nodal-ring semimetals (VNRs) and Hopf semimetals (HSMs). The VNR hosts a continuous ring of dipole-like BC sources generated by its winding pseudospin texture, whereas the HSM hosts an ideal BC dipole. This allows us to examine how distinct realisations of dipole-like BC structure affect collective charge dynamics. While plasmon modes in π«π―-symmetric nodal-ring semimetals (PTNRs) and their gapped cousins were studied in a companion work, arXiv:2609.35373, here we analyse the density response, Drude weights, dielectric function, and plasmon modes of VNRs and HSMs at low doping within the random-phase approximation. For VNRs, we consider untilted, in-plane tilted, and axially tilted systems. Although VNR and PTNR have identical energy dispersions, their distinct eigenstates introduce a toroidal-angle dependence in the band-overlap factor, yielding additional interband contributions for in-plane wavevectors and weak corrections to the screened plasmon frequencies. The toroidal Fermi surface also produces intrinsically anisotropic bare plasmons. In contrast, HSMs have isotropic bare plasmons, with anisotropy arising only through their interband response. Our results show that collective charge dynamics can distinguish different realisations of dipole-like BC structure and reveal pseudospin information beyond the single-particle dispersion.
ER -