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Exotic topological states of matter such as Floquet topological insulator or Floquet Weyl semimetal can be induced by periodic driving. This work proposes a Floquet semimetal with Floquet-band holonomy. That is, the system is gapless, but…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-21 Longwen Zhou , Chong Chen , Jiangbin Gong

Floquet engineering, the concept of tailoring a system by a periodic drive, is increasingly exploited to design and manipulate topological phases of matter. In this work, we study periodically driven higher-order topological Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-30 Zi-Ming Wang , Rui Wang , Jin-Hua Sun , Ting-Yong Chen , Dong-Hui Xu

Despite the broadband response, limited optical absorption at a particular wavelength hinders the development of optoelectronics based on Dirac fermions. Heterostructures of graphene and various semiconductors have been explored for this…

Motivated by the recent experimental realization of the half-quantized Hall effect phase in a three-dimensional (3D) semi-magnetic topological insulator [M. Mogi et al., Nature Physics 18, 390 (2022)], we propose a scheme for realizing the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Fang Qin , Ching Hua Lee , Rui Chen

We show that a semi-Dirac (SD) system with an inversion symmetry breaking mass exhibits a topological phase transition when irradiated with off-resonant light. Using Floquet theory, we derive the band structure, Chern numbers, phase…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-14 Vassilios Vargiamidis , P. Vasilopoulos , Neophytos Neophytou

In this paper, we propose a way to realize topological $s$-wave superconductivity with application of circularly polarized laser light in two-dimensional bilayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). Using Floquet theory, we analyze a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-11-25 Hiroomi Chono , Kazuaki Takasan , Youichi Yanase

We propose a novel mechanism for the photo-induced superconducting-like response recently reported in cuprates and other strongly correlated materials. This mechanism relies on quantum-fluctuating bosons consisting of electron pairs. With…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-08-25 Zhehao Dai , Patrick A. Lee

Topological superconductors give rise to unconventional superconductivity, which is mainly characterized by the symmetry of the superconducting pairing amplitude. However, since the symmetry of the superconducting pairing amplitude is not…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-05-09 C. Fleckenstein , N. Traverso Ziani , B. Trauzettel

Recently, it has been proposed that a mechanism for the appearance of non-equilibrium superconductivity in a resonantly driven semiconductor with repulsive interband interactions exists.~\cite{Goldstein_PRB15} The underlying microscopic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-24 S. Porta , L. Privitera , N. Traverso Ziani , M. Sassetti , F. Cavaliere , B. Trauzettel

Superconductivity in few-layer semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) can be induced by field-effect doping through ionic-liquid gating. While several experimental observations have been collected over the years, a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-09-24 Thibault Sohier , Marco Gibertini , Ivar Martin , Alberto F. Morpurgo

Topological materials are fertile ground for investigating topological phases of matter and topological phase transitions. In particular, the quest for novel topological phases in 2D materials is attracting fast growing attention. Here,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-13 Xiangru Kong , Linyang Li , Liangbo Liang , Francois M. Peeters , Xiong-Jun Liu

We discuss superconducting pairing in a narrow conduction band sandwiched between unoccupied and occupied bands, an arrangement that enables an unconventional pairing mechanism governed by Coulomb repulsion. Pairing interaction originates…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-03-30 Zhiyu Dong , Leonid Levitov

We developed the theory which describes the Floquet engineering of surface electronic modes in bulk mercury telluride (HgTe) by a circularly polarized electromagnetic field. The analysis shows that the field results in appearance of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-13 O. Kyriienko , O. V. Kibis , I. A. Shelykh

The interaction between light and matter can give rise to novel topological states. This principle was recently exemplified in Floquet topological insulators, where \emph{classical} light was used to induce a topological electronic band…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-07-08 Torsten Karzig , Charles-Edouard Bardyn , Netanel Lindner , Gil Refael

We demonstrate the occurrence of a topological phase transition induced by an effective magnetic field in a two-dimensional electron gas with spin-orbit coupling and in proximity to an $s$-wave superconductor. The effective, perpendicular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-17 Paul Wenk , Milena Grifoni , John Schliemann

Light-matter interaction enables engineering of non-equilibrium quantum systems. In condensed matter, spatially and temporally cyclic Hamiltonians are expected to generate energy-periodic Floquet states, with properties inaccessible at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-03 D. Z. Haxell , M. Coraiola , D. Sabonis , M. Hinderling , S. C. ten Kate , E. Cheah , F. Krizek , R. Schott , W. Wegscheider , W. Belzig , J. C. Cuevas , F. Nichele

We propose a scheme to create an electronic Floquet vortex state by irradiating a two-dimensional semiconductor with the laser light carrying non-zero orbital angular momentum. We analytically and numerically study the properties of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-23 Hwanmun Kim , Hossein Dehghani , Iman Ahmadabadi , Ivar Martin , Mohammad Hafezi

Three-dimensional doped Dirac insulators foster simply connected (in both topological and trivial regimes) and annular (deep inside the topological regime) Fermi surfaces (FSs) in the normal state, and allow on-site repulsions among…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-06 Andras L. Szabo , Bitan Roy

We propose a simple scheme for the realization of a topological quasienergy band structure with ultracold atoms in a periodically driven optical square lattice. It is based on a circular lattice shaking in the presence of a superlattice…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-08-10 Mantas Račiūnas , Giedrius Žlabys , André Eckardt , Egidijus Anisimovas

We predict that junctions between an antiferromagnetic insulator and a superconductor provide a robust platform to create a one-dimensional topological superconducting state. Its emergence does not require the presence of intrinsic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-03-10 Senna S. Luntama , Päivi Törmä , Jose L. Lado