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预测了有机盐$α$ -(BEDT-TTF)$_2$ I $_3$中伴随Dirac-锥对碰撞和坍缩的新型光诱导拓扑相变

Predicted novel type of photoinduced topological phase transition accompanied by collision and collapse of Dirac-cone pair in organic salt $α$-(BEDT-TTF)$_2$I$_3$

Keisuke Kitayama, Masao Ogata, Masahito Mochizuki, Yasuhiro Tanaka

摘要:

自从在石墨烯中预言了Dirac-电子系统的光致拓扑相变以来,光致拓扑相变引起了广泛的研究兴趣。圆偏振光的应用在Dirac点处打开了一个能隙,通过打破时间反演对称性使系统成为拓扑非平凡的Chern绝缘体相。然而,大多数先前研究的二维狄拉克系统中的现象基本上是基于相同的物理机制,即,用圆偏振光在狄拉克电子带中产生能隙,缺乏物理上的多样性。本文从理论上预言了有机盐$α$ -(BEDT-TTF)$_2$ I $_3$中一种新型的伴随着带隙Dirac点碰撞和坍缩的光致拓扑相变。通过建立该化合物的Floquet理论,我们证明了椭圆偏振光的照射通过光致能带形变和能带坍缩引起Dirac点的碰撞,最终导致当椭圆轴相对于晶轴成特定角度时,从具有带隙Dirac锥的拓扑半金属到正常绝缘体的拓扑相变.我们认为,这种新的光致相变可以通过测量霍尔电导率的实验检测。本文的工作丰富了光致拓扑相变的基础物理,有助于这一快速发展的研究领域的发展。

英文摘要:

Photoinduced topological phase transitions in the Dirac-electron systems have attracted intensive research interest since its theoretical prediction in graphene, where the application of circularly polarized light opens a gap at the Dirac points and renders the system a topologically nontrivial Chern insulator phase through breaking the time-reversal symmetry. However, most of the previously studied phenomena in two-dimensional Dirac systems are basically based on the same physicical mechanism, i.e., the gap opening in the Dirac electron bands with circularly polarized light, and it is lacking in variety of the physics. In this paper, we theoretically predict a novel type of photoinduced topological phase transition accompanied by collision and collapse of gapped Dirac points in the organic salt $α$-(BEDT-TTF)$_2$I$_3$. By constructing the Floquet theory for this compound, we demonstrate that the irradiation of elliptically polarized light causes collision of the Dirac points through the photoinduced band deformation and their collapse, which eventually results in the topological phase transition from a topological semimetal with gapped Dirac cones to a normal insulator when the elliptical axis is oriented at a specfic angle with respect to the crystallographic axes. We argue that this novel photoinduced phase transition can be experimentally detected by the measurement of Hall conductivity. The present work enriches the fundamental physics of photoinduced topological phase transitions and thus contribute to development of this rapidly growing research field.

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