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The breaking of time-reversal symmetry is a crucial ingredient to topological bands. It can occur intrisically in materials with magnetic order, or be induced by external fields, such as magnetic fields in quantum Hall systems, or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-10 Utso Bhattacharya , Swati Chaudhary , Tobias Grass , Allan S. Johnson , Simon Wall , Maciej Lewenstein

We study a two-dimensional topological system driven out of equilibrium by the application of elliptically polarized light. In particular, we analyze the Bernevig-Hughes-Zhang model when it is perturbed using an elliptically polarized light…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-13 Ranjani Seshadri , Diptiman Sen

We study the effect of strain on the band engineering in gapped graphene subject to external sources. By applying the Floquet theory, we determine the effective Hamiltonian of electron dressed by a linearly, circularly and an elliptically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-02 Hasna Chnafa , Miloud Mekkaoui , Ahmed Jellal , Abdelhadi Bahaoui

We study the effect of driving a two-dimensional honeycomb system out of equilibrium using an elliptically polarized light as a time-dependent perturbation. In particular, we try to understand the topological phase diagram of this driven…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-07 Ranjani Seshadri

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

Within the tight binding approximation, we study the dependence of the electronic band structure and of the optical conductivity of a graphene single layer on the modulus and direction of applied uniaxial strain. While the Dirac cone…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-01-15 F. M. D. Pellegrino , G. G. N. Angilella , R. Pucci

Floquet engineering provides an emerging pathway for tailoring the electronic states of quantum materials through time-periodic drive. A critical step along this direction is achieving light-induced modifications of the dynamical electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 Fei Wang , Xuanxi Cai , Wanying Chen , Jinxi Lu , Tianshuang Sheng , Xiao Tang , Jiansong Li , Hongyun Zhang , Shuyun Zhou

We propose Floquet chiral topological superconducting systems hosting Floquet Majorana fermions, which consist of hexagonal lattices in proximity to superconductors with shining circularly polarized light. Specially for bilayer graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-20 Zi-bo Wang , Hua Jiang , Haiwen Liu , X. C. Xie

We propose optical longitudinal conductivity as a realistic observable to detect light-induced Floquet band gaps in graphene. These gaps manifest as resonant features in the conductivity, when resolved with respect to the probing frequency…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-09 Lukas Broers , Ludwig Mathey

The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model of polyacetylene is a paradigmatic Hamiltonian exhibiting non-trivial edge states. By using Floquet theory we study how the spectrum of this one-dimensional topological insulator is affected by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-01 V. Dal Lago , M. Atala , L. E. F. Foa Torres

Circularly polarised light opens a gap in the Dirac spectrum of graphene and topological insulator (TI) surfaces, thereby inducing a quantum Hall-like phase. We propose to detect the accompanying edge states and their current by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 Jan P. Dahlhaus , Benjamin M. Fregoso , Joel E. Moore

We theoretically investigated the Floquet states of bilayer graphene heterostructure under the irradiation by horizontally incident circular polarized light. The in-plane and out-of-plane electric field of the light periodically perturbs…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-26 Ma Luo

With the aim to reveal universal features of hadronic matter and correlated Dirac insulators in strong AC-electric fields, we study the $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetric QCD with a finite quark mass driven by a rotating electric field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-01 Shunichiro Kinoshita , Keiju Murata , Takashi Oka

Response of electronic systems in intense lights (AC electric fields) to DC source-drain fields is formulated with the Floquet method. We have then applied the formalism to graphene, for which we show that a non-linear effect of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Takashi Oka , Hideo Aoki

For spinful systems with spin 1/2, it is generally believed that P and T invariant strong and second-order topologies exist in four band and eight band system, respectively. Here, by using periodic driving, we find it is possible to have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-14 Hong Wu , Yu-Chen Dong , Hui Liu

The unique electronic properties of the surface electrons in a topological insulator are protected by time-reversal symmetry. Circularly polarized light naturally breaks time-reversal symmetry, which may lead to an exotic surface quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-29 Y. H. Wang , H. Steinberg , P. Jarillo-Herrero , N. Gedik

Gapless bilayer graphene is susceptible to a variety of spontaneously gapped states. As predicted by theory and observed by experiment, the ground state is however topologically trivial, because a valley-independent gap is energetically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-08 Chunlei Qu , Chuanwei Zhang , Fan Zhang

We report on the effect of laser illumination with circularly polarized light on the electronic structure of AB-stacked graphite samples. By using Floquet theory in combination with Green's function techniques, we find that the polarized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-20 Hernan L. Calvo , Jose E. Barrios Vargas , Luis E. F. Foa Torres

This work investigates the Floquet dynamics of electrons and excitons (particle-hole pairs) in a Dirac material referred to as Kekul\'e-distorted graphene. Specifically, we examine the role played by a high frequency driving electromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-12 Sita Kandel , Godfrey Gumbs

We calculated a spin-polarized conductance in the almost unexplored nanostructure "high temperature ferromagnetic insulator/ graphene/ ferroelectric film" with a special attention to the impact of electric polarization rotation in a…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-09-02 Eugene A. Eliseev , Anna N. Morozovska , Maksym V. Strikha