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 language | English |
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| Article number | 033025 |
| Journal | New Journal of Physics |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 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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