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Electromagnetic dressing by a high-frequency field drastically modifies the electronic transport properties on Dirac systems. Here its effects on the energy spectrum of graphene with two possible phases of Kekul\'e distortion (namely, Kek-Y…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-07 M. A. Mojarro , V. G. Ibarra-Sierra , J. C. Sandoval-Santana , R. Carrillo-Bastos , Gerardo G. Naumis

The Weyl semimetal exhibits various interesting physical phenomena because of the Weyl points, i.e., linear band-crossings. We show by Floquet theory that a linearly polarized light applied to a band insulator can induce controllable Weyl…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-12-19 Xiao-Xiao Zhang , Tze Tzen Ong , Naoto Nagaosa

We study electron scattering in graphene quantum dots (GQDs) under the combined influence of a magnetic field, an energy gap, and circularly polarized laser irradiation. Using the Floquet approach and the Dirac equation, we derive the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-30 Ahmed Bouhlal , Mohammed El Azar , Aotmane En Naciri , Elmustapha Feddi , Ahmed Jellal

This theoretical work is devoted to investigating laser-irradiated Floquet topological magnon insulators on a two-dimensional checkerboard ferromagnet and corresponding topological phase transitions. It is shown that the checkerboard…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-08-31 Zhiqin Zhang , Wenhui Feng , Yingbo Yao , Bing Tang

We investigate the chiral electronic modes at the interface between two regions of a threefold topological semimetal, which is illuminated by left and right handed elliptically polarized waves. The radiation effects on the band structure of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-16 SK Firoz Islam , A. A. Zyuzin

We analyze the quantum Hall effect in single layer graphene with bilayer stripe defects. Such defects are often encountered at steps in the substrate of graphene grown on silicon carbide. We show that AB or AA stacked bilayer stripes result…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Tomas Lofwander , Pablo San-Jose , Elsa Prada

Photoinduced topological phase transitions in the Dirac-electron systems have attracted intensive research interest since its theoretical prediction in graphene, where the application of circularly polarized light opens a gap at the Dirac…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-09-27 Keisuke Kitayama , Masao Ogata , Masahito Mochizuki , Yasuhiro Tanaka

We study a two-dimensional topological system driven out of equilibrium by the application of elliptically polarized light. In particular, we analyze the Bernevig-Hughes-Zhang model when it is perturbed using an elliptically polarized light…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-13 Ranjani Seshadri , Diptiman Sen

Within the Floquet theory of periodically driven quantum systems, we demonstrate that a circularly polarized off-resonant electromagnetic field can destroy the electron states bound by three-dimensional attractive potentials. As a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-15 O. V. Kibis , M. V. Boev , D. S. Eliseev , V. M. Kovalev

Owing to the spin, valley, and orbital symmetries, the lowest Landau level (LL) in bilayer graphene exhibits multicomponent quantum Hall ferromagnetism. Using transport spectroscopy, we investigate the energy gaps of integer and fractional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Yanmeng Shi , Yongjin Lee , Shi Che , Ziqi Pi , Timothy Espiritu , Petr Stepanov , Dmitry Smirnov , Chun Ning Lau , Fan Zhang

In this work we use Floquet theory to theoretically study the influence of circularly polarized light on disordered two-dimensional models exhibiting topological transitions. We find circularly polarized light can induce a topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-22 Liang Du , Paul D. Schnase , Aaron D. Barr , Ariel R. Barr , Gregory A. Fiete

Floquet engineering severs as a forceful technique for uncovering high Chern numbers of quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) states with feasible tunability in high-order topologically insulating plumbene, which is readily accessible for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Zhe Li , Fangyang Zhan , Haijun Cao , Jingjing Cao , Huisheng Zhang , Sheng Meng

Floquet engineering of topological phase transitions driven by a high-frequency time-periodic field is a promising approach to realizing new topological phases of matter distinct from static states. Here, we theoretically investigate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-20 Kok Wai Lee , Mateo Jalen Andrew Calderon , Xiang-Long Yu , Ching Hua Lee , Yee Sin Ang , Pei-Hao Fu

Strongly coupling materials to cavity fields can affect their electronic properties altering the phases of matter. We study the monolayer graphene whose electrons are coupled to both left and right circularly polarized photons, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-26 Ceren B. Dag , Vasil Rokaj

We establish the theoretical foundation of the Floquet graphene antidot lattice, whereby massless Dirac fermions are driven periodically by a circularly polarized electromagnetic field, while having their motion excluded from an array of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-19 Andrew Cupo , Emilio Cobanera , James D. Whitfield , Chandrasekhar Ramanathan , Lorenza Viola

Pumping graphene with circularly polarized light is the archetype of light-tailoring topological bands. Realizing the induced Floquet-Chern insulator state and tracing clear experimental manifestions has been a challenge, and it has become…

We propose optical longitudinal conductivity as a realistic observable to detect light-induced Floquet band gaps in graphene. These gaps manifest as resonant features in the conductivity, when resolved with respect to the probing frequency…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-09 Lukas Broers , Ludwig Mathey

Recently, non-reciprocal two-dimensional unitary scattering networks have gained considerable interest due to the possibility of obtaining robust edge wave propagation in the anomalous Floquet phase. Conversely, zero-dimensional topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-07 Haoye Qin , Zhe Zhang , Qiaolu Chen , Romain Fleury

The coherent optical manipulation of solids is emerging as a promising way to engineer novel quantum states of matter. The strong time periodic potential of intense laser light can be used to generate hybrid photon-electron states.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-06 Fahad Mahmood , Ching-Kit Chan , Zhanybek Alpichshev , Dillon Gardner , Young Lee , Patrick A. Lee , Nuh Gedik

We employ a quantum Liouville equation with relaxation to model the recently observed anomalous Hall effect in graphene irradiated by an ultrafast pulse of circularly polarized light. In the weak-field regime, we demonstrate that the Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-19 S. A. Sato , J. W. McIver , M. Nuske , P. Tang , G. Jotzu , B. Schulte , H. Hübener , U. De Giovannini , L. Mathey , M. A. Sentef , A. Cavalleri , A. Rubio