Light-Induced Mirror Symmetry Breaking and Charge Transport

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Light-Induced Mirror Symmetry Breaking and Charge Transport
المؤلفون: Arakawa, Naoya, Yonemitsu, Kenji
المصدر: J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 93, 084701 (2024)
سنة النشر: 2024
المجموعة: Condensed Matter
Physics (Other)
مصطلحات موضوعية: Condensed Matter - Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics, Physics - Optics
الوصف: We propose that light can break mirror symmetries and combining symmetries with a uniform time translation, and their breaking is characterized by an off-diagonal charge conductivity. Taking periodically driven graphene as an example, we show that mirror symmetries about the $xz$ and $yz$ planes and the combining symmetries, the symmetries of combinations of the mirror operations about these planes and a uniform time translation, can be broken by linearly or circularly polarized light. We also show that this symmetry breaking induces the time-averaged off-diagonal symmetric or antisymmetric charge conductivity in a nonequilibrium steady state with linearly or circularly, respectively, polarized light. Our results are experimentally testable in pump-probe measurements. This work will pave the way for controlling mirror symmetries via light and utilizing the light-induced mirror symmetry breaking.
Comment: 11 pages, 6 figures, 1 table; published
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.7566/JPSJ.93.084701
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2407.05711
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2407.05711
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv