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Paper   IPM / Nano-Sciences / 16993
School of Nano Science
  Title:   Floquet states and optical conductivity of an irradiated two-dimensional topological insulator
  Author(s): 
1.  S. Sajad Dabiri
2.  Hosein Cheraghchi
3.  Ali Sadeghi
  Status:   Published
  Journal: Phys. Rev. B
  Year:  2022
  Supported by:  IPM
  Abstract:
We study the topology of the Floquet states and time-averaged optical conductivity of the lattice model of a thin topological insulator subject to a circularly polarized light using the extended Kubo formalism. Two driving regimes, the off-resonant and on-resonant, and two models for the occupation of the Floquet states, the ideal and mean-energy occupation, are considered. In the ideal occupation the real part of DC optical Hall conductivity is shown to be quantized while it is not quantized for the mean-energy distribution. The optical transitions in the Floquet band structure depend strongly on the occupation and also the optical weight which consequently affect all components of optical conductivity. At high frequency regime we present an analytical calculation of the effective Hamiltonian and also its phase diagram which depends on the tunneling energy between two surfaces. The topology of the system shows rich phases when it is irradiated by a weak on-resonant drive giving rise to emergence of anomalous edge states.

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