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arxiv: 1608.07851 · v2 · pith:X3E37SK3new · submitted 2016-08-28 · ❄️ cond-mat.mes-hall · cond-mat.mtrl-sci

Floquet High Chern Insulators in Periodically Driven Chirally Stacked Multilayer Graphene

classification ❄️ cond-mat.mes-hall cond-mat.mtrl-sci
keywords chernchirallygraphenehighinsulatorsstackedfloquetgate
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Chirally stacked $N$-layer graphene is a semimetal with $\pm p^N$ band-touching at two nonequivalent corners in its Brillioun zone. We predict that an off-resonant circularly polarized light (CPL) drives chirally stacked $N$-layer graphene into a Floquet Chern Insulators (FCIs), a.k.a. quantum anomalous Hall insulators, with tunable high Chern number $C_F=\pm N$ and large gaps. A topological phase transition between such a FCI and a valley Hall (VH) insulator with high valley Chern number $C_v=\pm N$ induced by a voltage gate can be engineered by the parameters of the CPL and voltage gate. We propose a topological domain wall between the FCI and VH phases, along which perfectly valley-polarized $N$-channel edge states propagate unidirectionally without backscattering.

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