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We study the effect of illumination of bicircularly polarized light (BCL) on topological semimetals, namely multifold fermion and line-node semimetals. We demonstrate, by means of both low-energy and lattice models, that the band-structures…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-08 Maitri Ganguli , Aneek Jana , Awadhesh Narayan

The intricate interplay between light and matter provides effective tools for manipulating topological phenomena. Here, we theoretically propose and computationally show that circularly polarized light hold the potential to transform the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-03 Cong Zhou , Jian Zhou

We show that Floquet engineering using bicircular light (BCL) is a versatile way to control magnetic symmetries and topology in materials. The electric field of BCL, which is a superposition of two circularly polarized light waves with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-14 Thaís V. Trevisan , Pablo Villar Arribi , Olle Heinonen , Robert-Jan Slager , Peter P. Orth

The Fermi and Rashba energies of surface states in the Bi_xPb_{1-x}/Ag(111) alloy can be tuned simultaneously by changing the composition parameter x. We report on unconventional Fermi surface spin textures observed by spin and…

We study two-dimensional $d$-wave altermagnetic metals taking into account the presence of substrate-induced Rashba spin-orbit coupling. We consider the altermagnet bandstructure using a 2D band Hamiltonian near the $\Gamma$ point under…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-07-18 Peng Rao , Alexander Mook , Johannes Knolle

We consider the combined effects of large spin-orbit couplings and a perpendicular magnetic field in a 2D honeycomb fermionic lattice. This system provides an elegant setup to generate versatile spin textures propagating along the edge of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-20 N. Goldman , W. Beugeling , C. Morais Smith

A recently identified class of collinear magnetic order, characterized by vanishing net magnetization yet unconventional spin splitting, known as altermagnets (AMs), has attracted significant research interest. Controlling the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-16 Yichen Liu , Tongshuai Zhu , Haijun Zhang

Two-dimensional electron systems with spin-orbit coupling in the proximity of a superconductor and a magnetic insulator have recently been considered as promising candidates to realize topological superconducting phases. Here we discuss…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Teemu Ojanen , Takuya Kitagawa

Altermagnets recently came into the spotlight as a new class of magnetic materials, arising as a consequence of specific crystal symmetries. They are characterized by a spin-polarized electronic band structure similar to ferromagnets, but…

We investigate topological phase transitions in a two-dimensional electron system with cubic Rashba spin-orbit coupling driven by circularly polarized light. Within the Floquet framework, we demonstrate that light-matter interaction induces…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-20 Debabrata Sinha

We show that the driving field of circularly polarized light (CPL) can be used to enhance and reverse the spin current generated in the spin Hall effect for some transition-metal dichalcogenides. This is demonstrated by analyzing the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-25 Naoya Arakawa , Kenji Yonemitsu

Incorporating valley as a degree of freedom into quantum anomalous Hall systems offers a novel approach to manipulating valleytronics in electronic transport. Using the Kane-Mele monolayer as a concrete model, we comprehensively explore the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-24 Shiyao Pan , Zeyu Li , Yulei Han

We establish a unified, symmetry-driven framework that combines the alternating spin splitting of altermagnets with valley topology to realize and electrically interconvert helical and chiral topological phases within a single material…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-09 Xianzhang Chen , Jiayong Zhang , Bowen Hao , Jiahui Qian , Ziye Zhu , Igor Zutic , Zhenyu Zhang , Tong Zhou

Arranging the stacking orders of A-type antiferromagnetic (A-AFM) bilayers offers a practical pathway to realizing two-dimensional altermagnets. Previous proposals, however, rely on stringent symmetry constraints, including layer groups and…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-23 Zhe Li , Lijuan Li , Mengxue Guan , Sheng Meng

We introduce a quantum spin Hall semimetal or Fermi liquid characterized with a Z2 topological invariant, measurable through circularly polarized light. We propose its engineering through two topological metallic band structures in crystals…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-19 Karyn Le Hur

We propose an experimental realization of the Spin Hall effect in graphene by illuminating a graphene sheet on top of a substrate with circularly polarized monochromatic light. The substrate induces a controllable Rashba type spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 Alexander Lopez , Rafael Molina

Altermagnets are a recently discovered class of compensated magnets with momentum-dependent spin splittings and unusual transport properties, even without a net magnetization. In the presence of combined four-fold rotation and time-reversal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-17 Arnob Mukherjee , Biplab Sanyal , Annica M. Black-Schaffer , Ankita Bhattacharya

We investigate the efficiency of charge-to-spin conversion in two-dimensional Rashba altermagnets, a class of materials that merge characteristics of both ferromagnets and antiferromagnets. Utilizing quantum linear response theory, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-11 Weiwei Chen , Longhai Zeng , W. Zhu

We study intrinsic thermal transport and Floquet-engineered topology in a two-dimensional d wave altermagnetic topological insulator powered by linearly polarized light. We analyze the anomalous Hall, Nernst, and thermal Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-27 Ayesha Maryam , Muzamil Shah , Kashif Sabeeh , Reza Asgari

In this paper, we study topological properties and Hall conductivities in PbC/MnSe heterostructure under the illumination of a circularly polarized light. At high frequency regime, energy gap, Chern numbers, and Hall conductivities are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-05 L. Chen
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