Floquet high Chern insulators in periodically driven chirally stacked multilayer graphene

被引:16
作者
Li, Si [1 ]
Liu, Cheng-Cheng [1 ]
Yao, Yugui [1 ]
机构
[1] Beijing Inst Technol, Sch Phys, Beijing Key Lab Nanophoton & Ultrafine Optoelect, Beijing 100081, Peoples R China
来源
NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS | 2018年 / 20卷
基金
国家重点研发计划;
关键词
Floquet high Chern insulators; periodically driven systems; chirally stacked multilayer graphene; quantum anomalous Hall insulators; a valley Hall insulator; circularly polarized light; TOPOLOGICAL INSULATORS; BILAYER GRAPHENE; ELECTRONIC-PROPERTIES; REALIZATION; MODEL;
D O I
10.1088/1367-2630/aab2c7
中图分类号
O4 [物理学];
学科分类号
0702 ;
摘要
Chirally stacked N-layer graphene is a semimetal with +/- 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), aka quantum anomalous Hall insulators, with tunable high Chern number C-F = +/- 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 = +/- 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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