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Light-matter interaction in 2D and topological materials provides a fascinating control knob for inducing emergent, non-equilibrium properties and achieving new functionalities in the ultrafast time scale (from fs to ps). Over the past…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-02 Changhua Bao , Peizhe Tang , Dong Sun , Shuyun Zhou

We theoretically investigate possible photoinduced topological phase transitions in the organic salt $\alpha$-(BEDT-TTF)$_2$I$_3$, which possesses a pair of inclined massless Dirac-cone bands between the conduction and valence bands under…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-09-21 Keisuke Kitayama , Yasuhiro Tanaka , Masao Ogata , Masahito Mochizuki

We propose a novel way of modulating exceptional topology by implementing Floquet engineering in non-hermitian (NH) systems. We introduce Floquet exceptional topological insulator which results from shining light on a conventional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-23 Gaurab Kumar Dash , Subhajyoti Bid , Manisha Thakurathi

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

Floquet engineering has emerged as a powerful approach for dynamically tailoring the electronic structures of quantum materials through time-periodic light fields generated by ultrafast laser pulses. The light fields can transiently dress…

Optical conductivity measurements may provide access to distinct signatures of Floquet electronic phases, which are described theoretically by their quasienergy band structures. We characterize experimental observables of the Floquet…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-27 Andrew Cupo , Joshuah T. Heath , Emilio Cobanera , James D. Whitfield , Chandrasekhar Ramanathan , Lorenza Viola

Light-induced phenomena in materials can exhibit exotic behavior that extends beyond equilibrium properties, offering new avenues for understanding and controlling electronic phases. So far, non-equilibrium phenomena in solids have been…

Periodic driving and Floquet engineering have emerged as invaluable tools for controlling and uncovering novel phenomena in quantum systems. In this study, we adopt these methods to manipulate nonequilibrium processes within…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-12 Jakob Bätge , Yu Wang , Amikam Levy , Wenjie Dou , Michael Thoss

We theoretically explore Floquet engineering in few-layer black phosphorus (fBP) under time-periodic driving. Motivated by the ability of circularly polarized light to induce nontrivial topological states at Dirac nodes, we investigate the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-28 Taehun Kim , Hansol Kim , Dongeun Kim , Hongki Min

While intense laser irradiation and moir\'e engineering have independently proven powerful for tuning material properties on demand in condensed matter physics, their combination remains unexplored. Here we exploit tilted laser illumination…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-04 Hernan L. Calvo , Luis E. F. Foa Torres , Matias Berdakin

Light-matter coupling involving classical and quantum light offers a wide range of possibilities to tune the electronic properties of correlated quantum materials. Two paradigmatic results are the dynamical localization of electrons and the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-14 Michael A. Sentef , Jiajun Li , Fabian Künzel , Martin Eckstein

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

Topological insulators represent unique phases of matter with insulating bulk and conducting edge or surface states, immune to small perturbations such as backscattering due to disorder. This stems from their peculiar band structure, which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-01 Jérôme Cayssol , Balázs Dóra , Ferenc Simon , Roderich Moessner

Non-Hermitian systems exhibit two distinct topological classifications based on their gap structure: line-gap and point-gap topologies. Although point-gap topology is intrinsic to non-Hermitian systems, its systematic construction remains a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-10-14 Xiang Ji , Hao Geng , Naeem Akhtar , Xiaosen Yang

Entanglement is a valuable resource in quantum information technologies. The practical implementation of entangled photon sources faces obstacles from imperfections and defects inherent in physical systems, resulting in a loss or…

We demonstrate how to control the spectra and current flow of Dirac electrons in both a graphene sheet and a topological insulator by applying either two linearly polarized laser fields with frequencies $\omega$ and $2\omega$ or a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Pablo Rodriguez-Lopez , Joseph J. Betouras , Sergey E. Savel'ev

Motivated by the recent experimental realization of twisted double bilayer graphene (TDBG) samples we study, both analytically and numerically, the effects of circularly polarized light propagating in free space and confined into a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-30 Martin Rodriguez-Vega , Michael Vogl , Gregory A. Fiete

Light-dressed materials hold enormous potential for generating new electronic properties. The band structure resulting from light-dressing can exhibit starkly different quantum and topological phenomena. So far, optical control of charge…

Hybrid magnonics has recently attracted intensive attentions as a promising platform for coherent information processing. In spite of its rapid development, on-demand control over the interaction of magnons with other information carriers,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-30 Jing Xu , Changchun Zhong , Xu Han , Dafei Jin , Liang Jiang , Xufeng Zhang

Trapped matter-wave interferometry offers the promise of compact high-precision local force sensing. However, noise in the trap itself can introduce new systematic errors which are absent in traditional free-fall interferometers. We…