Topological phase transitions and quantum Hall effect in the graphene family

Ledwith, Patrick John; Kort-Kamp, Wilton Junior de Melo; Dalvit, Diego Alejandro Roberto

doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.97.165426

Title: Topological phase transitions and quantum Hall effect in the graphene family

Journal Article · 14 April 2018 · Physical Review B

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.97.165426 · OSTI ID:1435530

Ledwith, Patrick John ^[1];

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Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States); Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Monolayer staggered materials of the graphene family present intrinsic spin-orbit coupling and can be driven through several topological phase transitions using external circularly polarized lasers and static electric or magnetic fields. We show how topological features arising from photoinduced phase transitions and the magnetic-field-induced quantum Hall effect coexist in these materials and simultaneously impact their Hall conductivity through their corresponding charge Chern numbers. We also show that the spectral response of the longitudinal conductivity contains signatures of the various phase-transition boundaries, that the transverse conductivity encodes information about the topology of the band structure, and that both present resonant peaks which can be unequivocally associated with one of the four inequivalent Dirac cones present in these materials. As a result, this complex optoelectronic response can be probed with straightforward Faraday rotation experiments, allowing the study of the crossroads between quantum Hall physics, spintronics, and valleytronics.

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Research Organization:: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)

Sponsoring Organization:: LDRD; USDOE

Grant/Contract Number:: AC52-06NA25396

OSTI ID:: 1435530

Report Number(s):: LA-UR-17-30904

Journal Information:: Physical Review B, Journal Name: Physical Review B Journal Issue: 16 Vol. 97; ISSN 2469-9950; ISSN PRBMDO

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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