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 …

Low-frequency and Moiré–Floquet engineering: A review

M Rodriguez-Vega, M Vogl, GA Fiete - Annals of Physics, 2021 - Elsevier
We review recent work on low-frequency Floquet engineering and its application to quantum
materials driven by light, focusing on van der Waals systems hosting Moiré superlattices …

Through the Lens of a Momentum Microscope: Viewing Light‐Induced Quantum Phenomena in 2D Materials

O Karni, I Esin, KM Dani - Advanced Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Van der Waals (vdW) materials at their 2D limit are diverse, flexible, and unique laboratories
to study fundamental quantum phenomena and their future applications. Their novel …

All-optical materials design of chiral edge modes in transition-metal dichalcogenides

M Claassen, C Jia, B Moritz, TP Devereaux - Nature communications, 2016 - nature.com
Monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenides are novel materials which at low energies
constitute a condensed-matter realization of massive relativistic fermions in two dimensions …

The Floquet engineer's handbook

MS Rudner, NH Lindner - arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.08252, 2020 - arxiv.org
We provide a pedagogical technical guide to many of the key theoretical tools and ideas that
underlie work in the field of Floquet engineering. We hope that this document will serve as a …

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 …

Floquet-engineered topological flat bands in irradiated twisted bilayer graphene

Y Li, HA Fertig, B Seradjeh - Physical Review Research, 2020 - APS
We propose a tunable optical setup to engineer topologically nontrivial flat bands in twisted
bilayer graphene under circularly polarized light. Using both analytical and numerical …

Floquet Majorana zero and modes in planar Josephson junctions

DT Liu, J Shabani, A Mitra - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
We show how Floquet Majorana fermions may be experimentally realized by periodic
driving of a solid-state platform. The system comprises a planar Josephson junction made of …

Floquet semimetal with Floquet-band holonomy

L Zhou, C Chen, J Gong - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
Exotic topological states of matter, such as a Floquet topological insulator or Floquet-Weyl
semimetal, can be induced by periodic driving. This work proposes a Floquet semimetal with …

Photon-induced Weyl half-metal phase and spin filter effect from topological Dirac semimetals

XS Li, C Wang, MX Deng, HJ Duan, PH Fu, RQ Wang… - Physical Review Letters, 2019 - APS
Recently discovered Dirac semimetals (DSMs) with two Dirac nodes, such as Na 3 Bi and
Cd 2 As 3, are regarded as carrying the Z 2 topological charge in addition to the chiral …