Floquet high Chern insulators in periodically driven chirally stacked multilayer graphene

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Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish
Article number033025
JournalNew Journal of Physics
Volume20
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Mar 2018

Keywords

  • Floquet high Chern insulators
  • a valley Hall insulator
  • chirally stacked multilayer grapheme
  • circularly polarized light
  • periodically driven systems
  • quantum anomalous Hall insulators

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