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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

We report on magneto-transport measurement in disordered graphene under pulsed magnetic field of up to 57T. For large electron or hole doping, the system displays the expected anomalous Integer Quantum Hall Effect (IQHE) specific to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 J. M. Poumirol , W. Escoffier , A. Kumar , M. Goiran , B. Raquet , J. M. Broto

Effects of a Kekule distortion on exciton instability in single-layer graphene are discussed. In the framework of quantum electrodynamics the mass of the electron generated dynamically is worked out using a Schwinger-Dyson equation. For…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-09-22 Raoul Dillenschneider

Interactions of quantum materials with strong-laser fields can induce exotic nonequilibrium electronic states. Monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenides, a new class of direct-gap semiconductors with prominent quantum confinement, offer…

This article reviews the basic theoretical aspects of graphene, a one atom thick allotrope of carbon, with unusual two-dimensional Dirac-like electronic excitations. The Dirac electrons can be controlled by application of external electric…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-01-15 A. H. Castro Neto , F. Guinea , N. M. R. Peres , K. S. Novoselov , A. K. Geim

We theoretically investigate the electronic and transport properties of a semi-Dirac material under the influence of an external time dependent periodic driving field (irradiation) by means of Floquet theory. We explore the inelastic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-26 SK Firoz Islam , Arijit Saha

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

In graphene, a Kekul\'e-Y bond texture modifies the electronic band structure generating two concentric Dirac cones with different Fermi velocities lying in the {\Gamma}-point in reciprocal space. The energy dispersion results in different…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 Elias Andrade , Ramon Carrillo-Bastos , Mahmoud M. Asmar , Gerardo G. Naumis

Excitons, the bosonic quasiparticle emerging from Coulomb interaction between electrons and holes, will undergo a Bose-Einstein condensation(BEC) and transition into a superfluid state with global phase coherence at low temperatures. An…

Fractional charges are one of the wonders of the fractional quantum Hall effect, a liquid of strongly correlated electrons in a large magnetic field. Fractional excitations are also anticipated in two-dimensional crystals of non-interacting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-09 Y. Guan , C. Dutreix , H. Gonzales-Herrero , M. M. Ugeda , I. Brihuega , M. I. Katsnelson , O. V. Yazyev , V. T. Renard

We demonstrate that the electronic structure of a material can be deformed into Floquet pseudo-bands with arbitrarily tailored shapes. We achieve this goal with a novel combination of quantum optimal control theory and Floquet engineering.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-08 Alberto Castro , Umberto de Giovannini , Shusuke A. Sato , Hannes Hübener , Angel Rubio

Kekul\'e phases are Peierls-like lattice distortions in graphene that are predicted to host novel electronic states beyond graphene (1-8). Although the Kekul\'e phases are realized in graphene through introducing electron-electron…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-08-03 Mo-Han Zhang , Ya-Ning Ren , Qi Zheng , Xiao-Feng Zhou , Lin He

Photoinduced topological phase transitions in the Dirac-electron systems have attracted intensive research interest since its theoretical prediction in graphene, where the application of circularly polarized light opens a gap at the Dirac…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-09-27 Keisuke Kitayama , Masao Ogata , Masahito Mochizuki , Yasuhiro Tanaka

We study the transmission probability of Dirac fermions in graphene scattered by a triangular double barrier potential in the presence of an external magnetic field. Our system made of two triangular potential barrier regions separated by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-09 Miloud Mekkaoui , Ahmed Jellal , Hocine Bahlouli

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

This study is devoted to the profound implications of tilted Dirac cones on the quantum transport properties of two-dimensional (2D) Dirac materials. These materials, characterized by their linear conic energy dispersions in the vicinity of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-30 Rasha Al-Marzoog , Ali Rezaei , Zahra Noorinejad , Mohsen Amini , Ebrahim Ghanbari-Adivi , S. A. Jafari

Dirac-electronic tunneling and nonlinear transport properties with both finite and zero energy bandgap are investigated for graphene with a tilted potential barrier under a bias. For validation, results from a finite-difference based…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-01 Farhana Anwar , Andrii Iurov , Danhong Huang , Godfrey Gumbs , Ashwani Sharma

Electron supercollimation, in which a wavepacket is guided to move undistorted along a selected direction, is a highly desirable property that has yet been realized experimentally. Disorder in general is expected to inhibit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 SangKook Choi , Cheol-Hwan Park , Steven G. Louie

Within the Floquet theory of periodically driven quantum systems, we demonstrate that a high-frequency electromagnetic field can be used as an effective tool to control excitonic properties of semiconductor quantum dots (QDs). It is shown,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-14 I. V. Iorsh , D. A. Zezyulin , S. A. Kolodny , R. E. Sinitsky , O. V. Kibis

The low-energy bands of twisted bilayer graphene form Dirac cones with approximate electron-hole symmetry at small rotation angles. These crossings are protected by the emergent symmetries of moir\'e patterns, conferring a topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-25 Hector Ochoa