Colloquium: Nonthermal pathways to ultrafast control in quantum materials

A De La Torre, DM Kennes, M Claassen, S Gerber… - Reviews of Modern …, 2021 - APS
Recent progress in utilizing ultrafast light-matter interaction to control the macroscopic
properties of quantum materials is reviewed. Particular emphasis is placed on photoinduced …

Light-induced emergent phenomena in 2D materials and topological materials

C Bao, P Tang, D Sun, S Zhou - Nature Reviews Physics, 2022 - nature.com
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 …

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 …

Light-induced anomalous Hall effect in graphene

JW McIver, B Schulte, FU Stein, T Matsuyama, G Jotzu… - Nature physics, 2020 - nature.com
Many non-equilibrium phenomena have been discovered or predicted in optically driven
quantum solids. Examples include light-induced superconductivity, and Floquet-engineered …

Colloquium: Atomic quantum gases in periodically driven optical lattices

A Eckardt - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2017 - APS
Time-periodic forcing in the form of coherent radiation is a standard tool for the coherent
manipulation of small quantum systems like single atoms. In the last years, periodic driving …

Topological switch for non-Hermitian skin effect in cold-atom systems with loss

L Li, CH Lee, J Gong - Physical review letters, 2020 - APS
We propose a realistic cold-atom quantum setting where topological localization induces
nonreciprocal pumping. This is an intriguing non-Hermitian phenomenon that illustrates how …

Electronic and optical properties of strained graphene and other strained 2D materials: a review

GG Naumis, S Barraza-Lopez… - Reports on Progress …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
This review presents the state of the art in strain and ripple-induced effects on the electronic
and optical properties of graphene. It starts by providing the crystallographic description of …

Universal high-frequency behavior of periodically driven systems: from dynamical stabilization to Floquet engineering

M Bukov, L D'Alessio, A Polkovnikov - Advances in Physics, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
We give a general overview of the high-frequency regime in periodically driven systems and
identify three distinct classes of driving protocols in which the infinite-frequency Floquet …

Anomalous Floquet-Anderson insulator as a nonadiabatic quantized charge pump

P Titum, E Berg, MS Rudner, G Refael, NH Lindner - Physical Review X, 2016 - APS
We show that two-dimensional periodically driven quantum systems with spatial disorder
admit a unique topological phase, which we call the anomalous Floquet-Anderson insulator …

Perspective on topological states of non-Hermitian lattices

LEFF Torres - Journal of Physics: Materials, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The search of topological states in non-Hermitian systems has gained a strong momentum
over the last two years climbing to the level of an emergent research front. In this perspective …