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Floquet topological photonic insulators characterized by periodically-varying Hamiltonians are known to exhibit much richer topological behaviors than static systems. In a Floquet insulator, the phase evolution of the Floquet-Bloch modes…

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Over the past decade, ultrafast electron dynamics in the solid state have been extensively studied using various strong light-matter interaction techniques, such as high-harmonic generation. These studies lead to multiple interpretations of…

Electro-optical modulation is widely employed for optical signal processing and in laser technology. To date, it is efficiently realized in integrated photonic systems as well as in bulk optics devices. Yet, the achievement of modulators…

Solution-processed two-dimensional (2D) materials hold promise for their scalable applications. However, the random, fragmented nature of the solution-processed nanoflakes and the poor percolative conduction through their discrete networks…

The control of antiferromagnets with ultrashort optical pulses has emerged as a prominent field of research. Tailored laser excitation can launch coherent spin waves at terahertz frequencies, yet a comprehensive description of their…

Magnetic van der Waals materials provide an ideal playground for exploring the fundamentals of low-dimensional magnetism and open new opportunities for ultrathin spin processing devices. The Mermin-Wagner theorem dictates that as in reduced…

A topological insulator is regarded as an ideal candidate for information storage and high-speed lossless electrical transmission devices due to robust topological protected boundary modes. Previous studies revealed that symmetry exerts an…

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Tuning and stabilising topological states, such as Weyl semimetals, Dirac semimetals, or topological insulators, is emerging as one of the major topics in materials science. Periodic driving of many-body systems offers a platform to design…

External coherent fields can drive quantum materials into non-equilibrium states, revealing exotic properties that are unattainable under equilibrium conditions -- an approach known as ``Floquet engineering.'' While optical lasers have…

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Strongly driven nonlinear systems are frequently encountered in physics, yet their accurate control is generally challenging due to the intricate dynamics. In this work, we present a non-perturbative, semi-analytical framework for tailoring…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-15 Kento Taniguchi , Atsushi Noguchi , Takashi Oka

Nonlinear optics underpins a broad range of photonic technologies, from classical and quantum light sources to emerging nonlinear photonic neural networks. Yet, conventional nonlinear optical devices exhibit static functionality: their…

This paper analyzes Floquet topological insulators resulting from the time-harmonic irradiation of electromagnetic waves on two dimensional materials such as graphene. We analyze the bulk and edge topologies of approximations to the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-01-19 Guillaume Bal , Daniel Massatt

Symmetry breaking plays an important role in fields of physics, ranging from particle physics to condensed matter physics. In solid-state materials, phase transitions are deeply linked to the underlying symmetry breakings, resulting in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-10 Changhua Bao , Fei Wang , Haoyuan Zhong , Shaohua Zhou , Tianyun Lin , Hongyun Zhang , Xuanxi Cai , Wenhui Duan , Shuyun Zhou

Two-dimensional van der Waals magnetic materials are of great current interest for their promising applications in spintronics. In this work, using density functional theory calculations in combination with the maximally localized Wannier…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-01-30 Guangyu Wang , Ke Yang , Yaozhenghang Ma , Lu Liu , Di Lu , Yuxuan Zhou , Hua Wu

Nonvolatile control of the Mott transition is a central goal in correlated-electron physics, offering access to fascinating emergent states and great potential for technological applications. Compared to chemical or mechanical approaches,…

Spatio-temporal modulation has shown great promise as a strong time-reversal symmetry breaking mechanism that enables integrated nonreciprocal devices and topological materials at optical frequencies. However, optical modulation has its own…

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The interplay of polarization and magnetism in materials with light can create rich nonlinear magneto-optical (NLMO) effects, and the recent discovery of two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals magnets provides remarkable control over NLMO…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-04-30 Dezhao Wu , Meng Ye , Haowei Chen , Yong Xu , Wenhui Duan

The ultrafast optical manipulation of ordered phases in strongly correlated materials is a topic of significant theoretical, experimental, and technological interest. Inspired by a recent experiment on light-induced superconductivity in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-07-26 Mehrtash Babadi , Michael Knap , Ivar Martin , Gil Refael , Eugene Demler

Floquet engineering is a powerful technique using periodic potentials, typically laser light, to drive materials into regimes inaccessible in equilibrium. Here, we show that Kondo models can be driven to multi-channel degenerate points,…

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