Determining the chirality of Weyl fermions from circular dichroism spectra in time-dependent angle-resolved photoemission

We show that the intensity of pumped states near Weyl point is different when pumped with left- and right-handed circular-polarized light, which leads to a special circular dichroism (CD) in time-dependent angle-resolved photoemission spectra (ARPES). We derive the expression for the CD of time-dependent ARPES, which is directly related to the chirality of Weyl fermions. Based on the above derivation, we further propose a method to determine the chirality for a given Weyl point from the CD of time-dependent ARPES. The corresponding CD spectra for TaAs has then been calculated from first principles, which can be compared with future experiments.