• 文献标题:   Materials Design from Nonequilibrium Steady States: Driven Graphene as a Tunable Semiconductor with Topological Properties
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   IADECOLA T, CAMPBELL D, CHAMON C, HOU CY, JACKIW R, PI SY, KUSMINSKIY SV
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
  • ISSN:   0031-9007
  • 通讯作者地址:   Boston Univ
  • 被引频次:   43
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.176603
  • 出版年:   2013

▎ 摘  要

Controlling the properties of materials by driving them out of equilibrium is an exciting prospect that has only recently begun to be explored. In this Letter we give a striking theoretical example of such materials design: a tunable gap in monolayer graphene is generated by exciting a particular optical phonon. We show that the system reaches a steady state whose transport properties are the same as if the system had a static electronic gap, controllable by the driving amplitude. Moreover, the steady state displays topological phenomena: there are chiral edge currents, which circulate a fractional charge e/2 per rotation cycle, with the frequency set by the optical phonon frequency. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.176603