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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 90, Issue 19, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.90.195429
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- US Department of Energy (DOE-BES) [DE-SC0010821]
- Simons Foundation
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [26400350] Funding Source: KAKEN
- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) [DE-SC0010821] Funding Source: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
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Motivated by recent pump-probe spectroscopies, we study the effect of phonon dissipation and potential cooling on the nonequilibrium distribution function in a Floquet topological state. To this end, we apply a Floquet kinetic equation approach to study two-dimensional Dirac fermions irradiated by a circularly polarized laser, a system which is predicted to be in a laser-induced quantum Hall state. We find that the initial electron distribution shows an anisotropy with momentum-dependent spin textures whose properties are controlled by the switching-on protocol of the laser. The phonons then smoothen this out, leading to a nontrivial isotropic nonequilibrium distribution which has no memory of the initial state and initial switch-on protocol, and yet is distinct from a thermal state. An analytical expression for the distribution at the Dirac point is obtained that is relevant for observing quantized transport.
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