• 文献标题:   Microscopic theory for the light-induced anomalous Hall effect in graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   SATO SA, MCIVER JW, NUSKE M, TANG P, JOTZU G, SCHULTE B, HUBENER H, DE GIOVANNINI U, MATHEY L, SENTEF MA, CAVALLERI A, RUBIO A
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW B
  • ISSN:   2469-9950 EI 2469-9969
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Tsukuba
  • 被引频次:   20
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevB.99.214302
  • 出版年:   2019

▎ 摘  要

We employ a quantum Liouville equation with relaxation to model the recently observed anomalous Hall effect in graphene irradiated by an ultrafast pulse of circularly polarized light. In the weak-field regime, we demonstrate that the Hall effect originates from an asymmetric population of photocarriers in the Dirac bands. By contrast, in the strong-field regime, the system is driven into a nonequilibrium steady state that is well described by topologically nontrivial Floquet-Bloch bands. Here, the anomalous Hall current originates from the combination of a population imbalance in these dressed bands together with a smaller anomalous velocity contribution arising from their Berry curvature. This robust and general finding enables the simulation of electrical transport from light-induced Floquet-Bloch bands in an experimentally relevant parameter regime and creates a pathway to designing ultrafast quantum devices with Floquet-engineered transport properties.