- https://www.sincrotroalba.cat/ca/actualitat/agenda/esdeveniments-externs/the-road-towards-floquet-topological-insulators
- The road towards Floquet topological insulators
- 2016-10-28T12:00:00+02:00
- 2016-10-28T13:00:00+02:00
- Prof Luis E. F. Foa Torres - Departament de Física, FCFM, Universitat de Xil·le, Santiago de Xil·le
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Oct 28, 2016
de 12:00 a 13:00 (Europe/Madrid / UTC200) - On
- Sala de Seminaris ICN2 (UAB)
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- Ana De La Osa
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Light-matter interaction is at the heart of intriguing phenomena and has led to many practical applications like, for instance, Raman spectroscopy. But beyond characterization, several studies have gone deeper into actually using light to modify the electrical properties of a material. This can be done, for example, by using light to switch off the conduction in graphene (or other materials), thereby allowing to tune the material's response with optical means, or even inducing tunable topological states in materials that would otherwise lack them (i.e. a Floquet topological insulator). The latter would expand the playground of topological insulators to a broader set of materials. Recently, laser-induced bandgaps have been experimentally verified at the surface of a topological insulator adding much interest to this area. In this talk I will provide an overview of our recent works in this field with a focus on the generation of Floquet chiral edge states in graphene, and other materials including topological insulators. The emergence of a Hall response without Landau levels and open problems will also be highlighted.
