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Photon-assisted charge transport through a double barrier structure under a time periodic field in graphene is studied. Within the framework of the Floquet formalism and using the transfer matrix method, the transmission probabilities for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-12 H. P. Ojeda-Collado , C. Rodríguez-Castellanos

A quantum Hall edge state provides a rich foundation to study electrons in 1-dimension (1d) but is limited to chiral propagation along a single direction. Here, we demonstrate a versatile platform to realize new 1d systems made by combining…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 J. D. Sanchez-Yamagishi , J. Y. Luo , A. F. Young , B. Hunt , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , R. C. Ashoori , P. Jarillo-Herrero

We study the response of a (2+1)-dimensional gauge theory to an external rotating electric field. In the strong coupling regime such system is formulated holographically in a top-down model constructed by intersecting D3- and D5-branes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-09 Ana Garbayo , Javier Mas , Alfonso V. Ramallo

Generating photogalvanic effects in centrosymmetric materials can provide new opportunities for developing passive photodetectors and energy harvesting devices. In this work, we investigate the photogalvanic effects in centrosymmetric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-12 Ze Zheng , Kainan Chang , Jin Luo Cheng

We study the tunneling effect of Dirac fermions in a monolayer WSe$_2$ subjected to a static electrostatic barrier and irradiated by a linearly polarized laser field. Within the Floquet formalism, the time-periodic driving is incorporated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Rachid El Aitouni , Mohammed El Azar , Clarence Cortes , Pablo Díaz , David Laroze , Ahmed Jellal

Floquet theory has spawned many exciting possibilities for electronic structure control with light with enormous potential for future applications. The experimental realization in solids, however, largely remains pending. In particular, the…

Floquet topological insulators are topological phases of matter generated by the application of time-periodic perturbations on otherwise conventional insulators. We demonstrate that spatial variations in the time-periodic potential lead to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-04-02 Yaniv Tenenbaum Katan , Daniel Podolsky

We investigate topological characteristics of the photon-dressed band structure of $\alpha$-$\mathcal{T}_3$ lattice on being driven by off-resonant circularly polarized radiation. We obtain exact analytical expressions of the quasienergy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-29 Bashab Dey , Tarun Kanti Ghosh

The effect of a randomly fluctuating gap, created by a random staggered potential, is studied in a monolayer and a bilayer of graphene. The density of states, the one-particle scattering rate and transport properties (diffusion coefficient…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-03-24 K. Ziegler

Bernal-stacked multilayer graphene is a versatile platform to explore quantum transport phenomena and interaction physics due to its exceptional tunability via electrostatic gating. For instance, upon applying a perpendicular electric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-11 F. Winterer , A. M. Seiler , A. Ghazaryan , F. R. Geisenhof , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , M. Serbyn , R. T. Weitz

A striking feature of bilayer graphene is the induction of a significant band gap in the electronic states by the application of a perpendicular electric field. Thicker graphene layers are also highly attractive materials. The ability to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-21 Chun Hung Lui , Zhiqiang Li , Kin Fai Mak , Emmanuele Cappelluti , Tony F. Heinz

We study the effect of driving a two-dimensional honeycomb system out of equilibrium using an elliptically polarized light as a time-dependent perturbation. In particular, we try to understand the topological phase diagram of this driven…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-07 Ranjani Seshadri

The quantum anomalies at the edges correspond to the topological phases in the system, and the chiral edge states can reflect bulk bands' topological properties. In this paper, we demonstrate a simulation of Floquet system's chiral edge…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-08-11 Zhongcheng Yu , Jinyuan Tian , Fansu Wei , Xuzong Chen , Xiaoji Zhou

We study the laser control of magnon topological phases induced by the Aharonov-Casher effect in insulating antiferromagnets (AFs). Since the laser electric field can be considered as a time-periodic perturbation, we apply the Floquet…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-18 Kouki Nakata , Se Kwon Kim , Shintaro Takayoshi

We investigate the pseudospin-dependent density-energy relation (whose differential with respect to energy is density of states) of a monolayer graphene under intense terahertz laser field by exactly solving the time-dependent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-09-27 J. Zhou

Using Floquet theory, we investigate the effect of light on triple fold fermions. We study a low energy model as well as a simplified tight binding model under illumination. We find that the three fold degeneracy remains symmetry protected…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-06 Rimika Jaiswal , Awadhesh Narayan

In this work, we show that suitably designed spatially varying linearly polarized light provides a versatile route to generate and control pseudo-magnetic fields in Weyl semimetals through Floquet engineering. Within a high-frequency…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 Arpit Raj , Swati Chaudhary , Martin Rodriguez-Vega , Maia G. Vergniory , Roni Ilan , Gregory A. Fiete

Recently, we presented a two-dimensional (2D) model of a weak topological insulator formed by stacking an $N$ number of Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chains \cite{Agrawal_2022-02}. We now study the influence of periodic driving on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-06 Aayushi Agrawal , Jayendra N. Bandyopadhyay

The edges of graphene and graphene like systems can host localized states with evanescent wave function with properties radically different from those of the Dirac electrons in bulk. This happens in a variety of situations, that are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-20 J. L. Lado , N. Garcia-Martinez , J. Fernandez-Rossier

We investigate Floquet-driven topological phase transitions in an AB-stacked bilayer Haldane lattice with tunable intralayer hopping anisotropy. By combining interlayer hybridization, Haldane flux, and off-resonant circularly polarized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-26 Imtiaz Khan , Muzamil Shah , Reza Asgari , Gao Xianlong