TY - JOUR
T1 - Floquet high Chern insulators in periodically driven chirally stacked multilayer graphene
AU - Li, Si
AU - Liu, Cheng Cheng
AU - Yao, Yugui
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 The Author(s). Published by IOP Publishing Ltd on behalf of Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft.
PY - 2018/3
Y1 - 2018/3
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Floquet high Chern insulators
KW - a valley Hall insulator
KW - chirally stacked multilayer grapheme
KW - circularly polarized light
KW - periodically driven systems
KW - quantum anomalous Hall insulators
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U2 - 10.1088/1367-2630/aab2c7
DO - 10.1088/1367-2630/aab2c7
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85044967191
SN - 1367-2630
VL - 20
JO - New Journal of Physics
JF - New Journal of Physics
IS - 3
M1 - 033025
ER -