Topological Floquet Phases in Driven Coupled Rashba Nanowires

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Abstract

We consider periodically driven arrays of weakly coupled wires with conduction and valence bands of Rashba type and study the resulting Floquet states. This nonequilibrium system can be tuned into nontrivial phases such as topological insulators, Weyl semimetals, and dispersionless zero-energy edge mode regimes. In the presence of strong electron-electron interactions, we generalize these regimes to the fractional case, where elementary excitations have fractional charges e/m with m being an odd integer.

Original languageEnglish
Article number176401
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume116
Issue number17
DOIs
StatePublished - 28 Apr 2016
Externally publishedYes

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  • General Physics and Astronomy

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