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Ultrafast electron dynamics in solids under strong optical fields has recently found particular attention. In dielectrics and semiconductors, various light-field-driven effects have been explored, such as high-harmonic generation,…

We show how to realize two-component fractional quantum Hall phases in monolayer graphene by optically driving the system. A laser is tuned into resonance between two Landau levels, giving rise to an effective tunneling between these two…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-12-18 Areg Ghazaryan , Tobias Graß , Michael J. Gullans , Pouyan Ghaemi , Mohammad Hafezi

A key step towards dissipationless transport devices is the quantum anomalous Hall effect, which is characterized by an integer quantized Hall conductance in a ferromagnetic insulator with strong spin-orbit coupling. In this work, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-29 Hai-Zhou Lu , Shun-Qing Shen

The observation of the anomalous quantum Hall effect in exfoliated graphene flakes triggered an explosion of interest in graphene. It was however not observed in high quality epitaxial graphene multilayers grown on silicon carbide…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-08-31 Xiaosong Wu , Yike Hu , Ming Ruan , Nerasoa K Madiomanana , John Hankinson , Mike Sprinkle , Claire Berger , Walt A. de Heer

The fractional quantum anomalous Hall effect (FQAHE), the analog of the fractional quantum Hall effect1 at zero magnetic field, is predicted to exist in topological flat bands under spontaneous time-reversal-symmetry breaking. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-29 Zhengguang Lu , Tonghang Han , Yuxuan Yao , Aidan P. Reddy , Jixiang Yang , Junseok Seo , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Liang Fu , Long Ju

Optical conductivity measurements may provide access to distinct signatures of Floquet electronic phases, which are described theoretically by their quasienergy band structures. We characterize experimental observables of the Floquet…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-27 Andrew Cupo , Joshuah T. Heath , Emilio Cobanera , James D. Whitfield , Chandrasekhar Ramanathan , Lorenza Viola

We propose realizing the quantum anomalous Hall effect by proximity coupling graphene to an antiferromagnetic insulator that provides both broken time-reversal symmetry and spin-orbit coupling. We illustrate our idea by performing ab initio…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-21 Zhenhua Qiao , Wei Ren , Hua Chen , L. Bellaiche , Zhenyu Zhang , A. H. MacDonald , Qian Niu

We study an unconventional quantum Hall effect for the surface states of ultrathin Floquet topological insulators in a perpendicular magnetic field. The resulting band structure is modified by photon dressing and the topological property is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 M. Tahir , P. Vasilopoulos , U. Schwingenschlog

We show through both theoretical arguments and numerical calculations that graphene discerns an unconventional sequence of quantized Hall conductivity, when subject to both magnetic fields (B) and strain. The latter produces time-reversal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-20 Bitan Roy , Zi-Xiang Hu , Kun Yang

The intricate interplay between light and matter provides effective tools for manipulating topological phenomena. Here, we theoretically propose and computationally show that circularly polarized light hold the potential to transform the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-03 Cong Zhou , Jian Zhou

The fractional quantum anomalous Hall effect (FQAHE) is a fascinating emergent quantum state characterized by fractionally charged excitations in the absence of magnetic field,which could arise from the intricate interplay between electron…

Interband transitions of electrons in a gapped graphene monolayer are highly stimulated near the Fermi surface when a high-frequency electric wave of weak intensity and a strong constant electric field are superposed in the plane of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-21 Selym Villalba-Chávez , Oliver Mathiak , Reinhold Egger , Carsten Müller

When smooth, zero-on-average, periodic magnetic and electric fields are applied to a carbon mono-layer (graphene), a gap between the valence and conduction band is introduced. Here this gapped state is studied analytically. It is found that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-25 I. Snyman

We use a lowest Landau level model to study the recent observation of an anomalous Hall effect in twisted bilayer graphene. This effective model is rooted in the occurrence of Chern bands which arise due to the coupling between the graphene…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-04-28 Nick Bultinck , Shubhayu Chatterjee , Michael P. Zaletel

The magneto-transport properties of phosphorene are investigated by employing the generalized tight-binding model to calculate the energy bands. For bilayer phosphorene, a composite magnetic and electric field is shown to induce a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-24 Jhao-Ying Wu , Wu-Pei Su , Godfrey Gumbs

Superlattices (SLs) in monolayer and bilayer graphene, formed by spatially periodic potential variations, lead to a modified bandstructure with extra finite-energy and zero-energy Dirac fermions with tunable anisotropic velocities. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-14 Si Wu , Matthew Killi , Arun Paramekanti

Quantum anomalous Hall state is expected to emerge in Dirac electron systems such as graphene under both sufficiently strong exchange and spin-orbit interactions. In pristine graphene, neither interaction exists; however, both interactions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-12 Chi Tang , Bin Cheng , Mohammed Aldosary , Zhiyong Wang , Zilong Jiang , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , Marc Bockrath , Jing Shi

Strongly correlated electron liquids which occur in quantizing magnetic fields reveal a cornucopia of fascinating quantum phenomena such as fractionally charged quasiparticles, anyonic statistics, topological order, and many others. Probing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-03-09 D. A. Abanin , I. Skachko , X. Du , E. Y. Andrei , L. S. Levitov

The quantum anomalous Hall effect can occur in single and few layer graphene systems that have both exchange fields and spin-orbit coupling. In this paper, we present a study of the quantum anomalous Hall effect in single-layer and gated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Wang-Kong Tse , Zhenhua Qiao , Yugui Yao , A. H. MacDonald , Qian Niu

Electrons in topological flat bands can form novel topological states driven by the correlation effects. The penta-layer rhombohedral graphene/hBN moire superlattice has been shown to host fractional quantum anomalous Hall effect (FQAHE) at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-20 Zhengguang Lu , Tonghang Han , Yuxuan Yao , Jixiang Yang , Junseok Seo , Lihan Shi , Shenyong Ye , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Long Ju