Out-of-equilibrium electrons and the Hall conductance of a Floquet topological insulator

H Dehghani, T Oka, A Mitra - Physical Review B, 2015 - APS
Graphene irradiated by a circularly polarized laser has been predicted to be a Floquet
topological insulator showing a laser-induced quantum Hall effect. A circularly polarized …

Optical Hall conductivity of a Floquet topological insulator

H Dehghani, A Mitra - Physical Review B, 2015 - APS
Results are presented for the optical Hall conductivity of a Floquet topological insulator (FTI)
for an ideal closed quantum system, as well as an open system in a nonequilibrium steady …

Multiterminal conductance of a Floquet topological insulator

LEF Foa Torres, PM Perez-Piskunow, CA Balseiro… - Physical review …, 2014 - APS
We report on simulations of the dc conductance and quantum Hall response of a Floquet
topological insulator using Floquet scattering theory. Our results reveal that laser-induced …

Cavity quantum electrodynamical Chern insulator: Towards light-induced quantized anomalous Hall effect in graphene

X Wang, E Ronca, MA Sentef - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
We show that an energy gap is induced in graphene by light-matter coupling to a circularly
polarized photon mode in a cavity. Using many-body perturbation theory, we compute the …

Band structure engineering and non-equilibrium dynamics in Floquet topological insulators

MS Rudner, NH Lindner - Nature reviews physics, 2020 - nature.com
Non-equilibrium topological phenomena can be induced in quantum many-body systems
using time-periodic fields (for example, by laser or microwave illumination). This Review …

Effective theory of Floquet topological transitions

A Kundu, HA Fertig, B Seradjeh - Physical review letters, 2014 - APS
We develop a theory of topological transitions in a Floquet topological insulator, using
graphene irradiated by circularly polarized light as a concrete realization. We demonstrate …

Edge-state transport in Floquet topological insulators

A Farrell, T Pereg-Barnea - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
Floquet topological insulators are systems in which the topology emerges only when a time-
periodic perturbation is applied. In these systems one can define quasienergy states which …

Irradiated graphene as a tunable Floquet topological insulator

G Usaj, PM Perez-Piskunow, LEF Foa Torres… - Physical Review B, 2014 - APS
In the presence of a circularly polarized mid-infrared radiation graphene develops
dynamical band gaps in its quasienergy band structure and becomes a Floquet insulator …

Linear response theory and optical conductivity of Floquet topological insulators

A Kumar, M Rodriguez-Vega, T Pereg-Barnea… - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
Motivated by the quest for experimentally accessible dynamical probes of Floquet
topological insulators, we formulate the linear response theory of a periodically driven …

Occupation of topological Floquet bands in open systems

T Iadecola, T Neupert, C Chamon - Physical Review B, 2015 - APS
Floquet topological insulators are noninteracting quantum systems that, when driven by a
time-periodic field, are described by effective Hamiltonians whose bands carry nontrivial …