• 文献标题:   Floquet high Chern insulators in periodically driven chirally stacked multilayer graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   LI S, LIU CC, YAO YG
  • 作者关键词:   floquet high chern insulator, periodically driven system, chirally stacked multilayer graphene, quantum anomalous hall insulator, a valley hall insulator, circularly polarized light
  • 出版物名称:   NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS
  • ISSN:   1367-2630
  • 通讯作者地址:   Beijing Inst Technol
  • 被引频次:   2
  • DOI:   10.1088/1367-2630/aab2c7
  • 出版年:   2018

▎ 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.