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Floquet engineering provides an emerging pathway for tailoring the electronic states of quantum materials through time-periodic drive. A critical step along this direction is achieving light-induced modifications of the dynamical electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 Fei Wang , Xuanxi Cai , Wanying Chen , Jinxi Lu , Tianshuang Sheng , Xiao Tang , Jiansong Li , Hongyun Zhang , Shuyun Zhou

Strong light-matter interactions can create non-equilibrium materials with on-demand novel functionalities. For periodically driven solids, the Floquet theorem provides the natural states to characterize the physical properties of these…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-30 Vishal Tiwari , Roman Korol , Ignacio Franco

We consider the fate of a helical edge state of a spin Hall insulator and its topological transition in presence of a circularly polarized light when coupled to various forms of environments. A Lindblad type equation is developed to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-09-28 Szabolcs Vajna , Baruch Horovitz , Balázs Dóra , Gergely Zaránd

Graphene subject to a spatially uniform, circularly-polarized electric field supports a Floquet spectrum with properties akin to those of a topological insulator, including non-vanishing Chern numbers associated with bulk bands and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Zhenghao Gu , H. A. Fertig , Daniel P. Arovas , Assa Auerbach

In this paper, we study transport properties of non-equilibrium systems under the application of light in many-terminal measurements, using the Floquet picture. We propose and demonstrate that the quantum transport properties can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 Takuya Kitagawa , Takashi Oka , Arne Brataas , Liang Fu , Eugene Demler

Recent advances in optics and time-resolved techniques have facilitated the exploration of new states of matter under nonequilibrium conditions. Here, we predict that irradiated graphene can host two novel nonequilibrium steady states of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-02 Youngjae Kim , Kwon Park

We report on the fate of the quantum Hall effect in graphene under strong laser illumination. By using Floquet theory combined with both a low energy description and full tight-binding models, we clarify the selection rules, the quasienergy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-10 A. Huamán , L. E. F. Foa Torres , C. A. Balseiro , Gonzalo Usaj

We theoretically study the circularly polarized light-induced Floquet state in line-node semimetals with time-reversal symmetry and inversion symmetry. It is found that the Floquet state can show the photovoltaic anomalous Hall effect when…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-01 Katsuhisa Taguchi , Dong-Hui Xu , Ai Yamakage , K. T. Law

High intensity coherent light can dress matter, realizing new hybrid phases that are not accessible in equilibrium. This effect results from the coherent interaction between Bloch states inside the solid and the periodic field of impinging…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-02-18 F. Chassot , G. Kremer , A. Pulkkinen , C. Wang , J. Krempasky , J. Minar , G. Springholz , M. Puppin , J. H. Dil , C. Monney

We theoretically study the real-time dynamics of the photoinduced topological phase transition to a nonequilibrium Floquet Chern insulator in an organic conductor $\alpha$-(BEDT-TTF)$_2$I$_3$, which was recently predicted using the Floquet…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-08-17 Yasuhiro Tanaka , Masahito Mochizuki

Floquet engineering of electronic systems is a promising way of controlling quantum material properties on an ultrafast time scale. So far, the energy structure of Floquet states in solids has been observed through time and angle-resolved…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-05-02 Kento Uchida , Satoshi Kusaba , Kohei Nagai , Tatsuhiko N. Ikeda , Koichiro Tanaka

We propose to combine the Floquet formalism for systems in ac fields with the dynamical mean-field theory to study correlated electron systems periodically driven out of equilibrium by external fields such as intense laser light. This…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-01-23 Naoto Tsuji , Takashi Oka , Hideo Aoki

We study the topology of the Floquet states and time-averaged optical conductivity of the lattice model of a thin topological insulator subject to a circularly polarized light using the extended Kubo formalism. Two driving regimes, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-16 S. Sajad Dabiri , H. Cheraghchi , A. Sadeghi

In the framework of the Floquet theory of periodically driven quantum systems, it is demonstrated that irradiation of graphene by a circularly polarized electromagnetic field induces an attractive area in the core of repulsive potentials.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-04 O. V. Kibis , M. V. Boev , I. V. Iorsh , V. M. Kovalev

The use of Floquet theory combined with a realistic description of the electronic structure of illuminated graphene and graphene nanoribbons is developed to assess the emergence of non-adiabatic and non-perturbative effects on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-13 Hernan L. Calvo , Pablo M. Perez-Piskunow , Horacio M. Pastawski , Stephan Roche , Luis E. F. Foa Torres

Graphene irradiated by a circularly polarized laser has been predicted to be a Floquet topological insulator showing a laser-induced quantum Hall effect. A circularly polarized laser also drives the system out of equilibrium resulting in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Hossein Dehghani , Takashi Oka , Aditi Mitra

Recent advances in laser technology now enable engineering the electronic structure of matter through strong light-matter interactions. However, the effective physicochemical properties of these laser-dressed nonequilibrium materials are…

Optics · Physics 2023-08-25 Vishal Tiwari , Bing Gu , Ignacio Franco

The Quantum Hall Effect for free electrons in external periodic field is discussed without using the linear response approximation. We find that the Hall conductivity is related in a simple way to Floquet energies (associated to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 Ruggero Ferrari

Floquet engineering is a novel method of manipulating quantum phases of matter via periodic driving [1, 2]. It has successfully been utilized in different platforms ranging from photonic systems [3] to optical lattice of ultracold atoms [4,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-06 Dongsung Choi , Masataka Mogi , Umberto De Giovannini , Doron Azoury , Baiqing Lv , Yifan Su , Hannes Hübener , Angel Rubio , Nuh Gedik

Intense time-periodic laser fields can transform the electronic structure of a solid into strongly modified Floquet-Bloch bands. While this suggests multiple pathways to induce electronic orders such as superconductivity or charge density…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-01-14 Nagamalleswararao Dasari , Martin Eckstein