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NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS
Volume 21, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/ab3acf
Keywords
Floquet states; open quantum systems; anomalous Hall effect
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- European Research Council [ERC-2015-AdG694097]
- Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
- DFG through the Emmy Noether programme [SE 2558/2-1]
- European Unions Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant [793609]
- Cluster of Excellence 'Advanced Imaging of Matter' (AIM)
- Marie Curie Actions (MSCA) [793609] Funding Source: Marie Curie Actions (MSCA)
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Employing the quantum Liouville equation with phenomenological dissipation, we investigate the transport properties of massless and massive Dirac fermion systems that mimics graphene and topological insulators, respectively. The massless Dirac fermion system does not show an intrinsic Hall effect, but it shows a Hall current under the presence of circularly-polarized laser fields as a nature of a optically-driven nonequilibrium state. Based on the microscopic analysis, we find that the light-induced Hall effect mainly originates from the imbalance of photocarrier distribution in momentum space although the emergent Floquet-Berry curvature also has a non-zero contribution. We further compute the Hall transport property of the massive Dirac fermion system with an intrinsic Hall effect in order to investigate the interplay of the intrinsic topological contribution and the extrinsic light-induced population contribution. As a result, we find that the contribution from the photocarrier population imbalance becomes significant in the strong field regime and it overcomes the intrinsic contribution. This finding clearly demonstrates that intrinsic transport properties of materials can be overwritten by external driving and may open a way to ultrafast optical-control of transport properties of materials.
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