Bicircular Light Floquet Engineering of Magnetic Symmetry and Topology and Its Application to the Dirac Semimetal Cd3As2

Trevisan, Thaís V.; Arribi, Pablo Villar; Heinonen, Olle; Slager, Robert-Jan; Orth, Peter P.

doi:10.1103/physrevlett.128.066602

Title: Bicircular Light Floquet Engineering of Magnetic Symmetry and Topology and Its Application to the Dirac Semimetal Cd 3 As 2

Journal Article · 07 February 2022 · Physical Review Letters

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.128.066602 · OSTI ID:1875276

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Ames Lab., and Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA (United States)
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Lemont, IL (United States); International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Trieste (Italy)
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Lemont, IL (United States)
Univ. of Cambridge (United Kingdom); Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States)

Here, we show that bicircular light (BCL) is a versatile way to control magnetic symmetries and topology in materials. The electric field of BCL, which is a superposition of two circularly polarized light waves with frequencies that are integer multiples of each other, traces out a rose pattern in the polarization plane that can be chosen to break selective symmetries, including spatial inversion. Using a realistic low-energy model, we theoretically demonstrate that the three-dimensional Dirac semimetal Cd₃As₂ is a promising platform for BCL Floquet engineering. Without strain, BCL irradiation induces a transition to a noncentrosymmetric magnetic Weyl semimetal phase with tunable energy separation between the Weyl nodes. In the presence of strain, we predict the emergence of a magnetic topological crystalline insulator with exotic unpinned surface Dirac states that are protected by a combination of twofold rotation and time reversal (2') and can be controlled by light.

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Research Organization:: Ames Laboratory (AMES), Ames, IA (United States); Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) (United States). Center for the Advancement of Topological Semimetals (CATS)

Sponsoring Organization:: European Commission (EC); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-06CH11357; AC02-07CH11358

OSTI ID:: 1875276

Report Number(s):: IS-J-10,713; 842901

Journal Information:: Physical Review Letters, Journal Name: Physical Review Letters Journal Issue: 6 Vol. 128; ISSN 0031-9007

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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