Manipulation of antichiral edge state based on modified Haldane model

Antichiral edge state (AES) was theoretical proposed by Colomes and Franz (2018 Phys. Rev. Lett. 120(8): 086603), which is recently realized in experiment. Under increasing the intensity of the off-resonant circularly polarized light, the AES can be induced as anisotropic, flat types and then anisotropic chiral edge state in zigzag honeycomb nanoribbon. More interestingly, the spin-polarized AESs can be further induced by the antiferromagnetic exchange field and electric field instead of the OPCP light. In particular, according to the propagating direction mismatch, we find the spin-degenerate (spin-polarized) dual propagating channel of the AES can be transformed into the spin-degenerate (spin-polarized) single propagating channel along the upper or lower boundary in topological heterojunction with different edge states. In the switch of the propagating channel, the local bond currents along the outer boundaries are reflected back in the lead and device with bulk states for spin-degenerate and spin polarized cases, respectively. In addition, these propagating channels are also robust against weak normal dephasing effect, which paves diverse platforms to design the topological devices in the future.

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Antichiral edge state (AES), a theoretical concept proposed by Colomes and Franz, has been recently realized in experiments. By increasing the intensity of circularly polarized light, anisotropic AES can be induced, and the spin-polarized AES can also be induced by antiferromagnetic exchange field and electric field. These propagating channels are robust against weak normal dephasing effect, providing diverse platforms for designing topological devices in the future.