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Shockwave-Enhanced Floquet Engineering in Relativistic Quasiparticles

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2025-03-12 v3

Abstract

We investigate Floquet engineering of three-dimensional Dirac fermions driven by propagating waves, identifying distinct quantum states and phase transitions in the time-like, light-like, and space-like regimes. Notably, we uncover a novel regime where Floquet Weyl bands emerge and transition into Type-II Weyl states as the wave speed nears the Fermi velocity. Using Floquet-Bloch theory, we demonstrate that Lorentz contraction strongly amplifies Floquet band modulation effects, leading to a shockwave-like state synchronized with the wave motion. These findings extend beyond electrons to quasiparticles with relativistic dispersions, opening new avenues for dynamic band engineering in quantum materials.

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@article{arxiv.2407.21458,
  title  = {Shockwave-Enhanced Floquet Engineering in Relativistic Quasiparticles},
  author = {Takashi Oka},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.21458},
  year   = {2025}
}

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5 pages, 4 figures

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