Electron-phonon coupling induced intrinsic Floquet electronic structure release_rpvzroc7jneh7mbhi5zgdi6bs4

by Zhigang Song, Lin-Wang Wang

Published in npj Quantum Materials by Springer Science and Business Media LLC.

2020  

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<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> Floquet states are a topic of intense contemporary interest, which is often induced by coherent external oscillating perturbation (e.g., laser, or microwave) which breaks the continuous time translational symmetry of the systems. Usually, electron–phonon coupling modifies the electronic structure of a crystal as a non-coherent perturbation and seems difficult to form Floquet states. Surprisingly, we found that the thermal equilibrium electron–phonon coupling in <jats:italic>M</jats:italic>(MoS)<jats:sub>3</jats:sub> and <jats:italic>M</jats:italic>(MoSe)<jats:sub>3</jats:sub> (where <jats:italic>M</jats:italic> is a metallic element) exhibits a coherent behavior, and the electronic structure can be described by the Floquet theorem. Such a coherent Floquet state is caused by a selective giant electron–phonon coupling, with thermodynamic phonon oscillation serving as a driving force on the electronic part of the system. The quasi-1D Dirac cone at the Fermi energy has its band gap open and close regularly. Similarly, the electric current will oscillate even under a constant voltage.
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