Revealing the hidden Dirac gap in a topological antiferromagnet using Floquet-Bloch manipulation

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العنوان: Revealing the hidden Dirac gap in a topological antiferromagnet using Floquet-Bloch manipulation
المؤلفون: Bielinski, Nina, Chari, Rajas, May-Mann, Julian, Kim, Soyeun, Zwettler, Jack, Deng, Yujun, Aishwarya, Anuva, Roychowdhury, Subhajit, Shekhar, Chandra, Hashimoto, Makoto, Lu, Donghui, Yan, Jiaqiang, Felser, Claudia, Madhavan, Vidya, Shen, Zhi-Xun, Hughes, Taylor L., Mahmood, Fahad
سنة النشر: 2024
المجموعة: Condensed Matter
مصطلحات موضوعية: Condensed Matter - Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
الوصف: Manipulating solids using the time-periodic drive of a laser pulse is a promising route to generate new phases of matter. Whether such `Floquet-Bloch' manipulation can be achieved in topological magnetic systems with disorder has so far been unclear. In this work, we realize Floquet-Bloch manipulation of the Dirac surface-state mass of the topological antiferromagnet (AFM) MnBi$_2$Te$_4$. Using time- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (tr-ARPES), we show that opposite helicities of mid-infrared circularly polarized light result in substantially different Dirac mass gaps in the AFM phase, despite the equilibrium Dirac cone being massless. We explain our findings in terms of a Dirac fermion with a random mass. Our results underscore Floquet-Bloch manipulation as a powerful tool for controlling topology even in the presence of disorder, and for uncovering properties of materials that may elude conventional probes.
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2405.16432
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2405.16432
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv