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Junk, Vanessa ; Reck, Phillipp ; Gorini, Cosimo ; Richter, Klaus

Floquet oscillations in periodically driven Dirac systems

Junk, Vanessa , Reck, Phillipp , Gorini, Cosimo and Richter, Klaus (2020) Floquet oscillations in periodically driven Dirac systems. Physical Review B (PRB) 101 (13), p. 134302.

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DOI to cite this document: 10.5283/epub.43238

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Electrons in a lattice exhibit time-periodic motion, known as Bloch oscillation, when subject to an additional static electric field. Here, we show that a corresponding dynamics can occur upon replacing the spatially periodic potential by a time-periodic driving: Floquet oscillations of charge carriers in a spatially homogeneous system. The time lattice of the driving gives rise to Floquet bands ...

Electrons in a lattice exhibit time-periodic motion, known as Bloch oscillation, when subject to an additional static electric field. Here, we show that a corresponding dynamics can occur upon replacing the spatially periodic potential by a time-periodic driving: Floquet oscillations of charge carriers in a spatially homogeneous system. The time lattice of the driving gives rise to Floquet bands that take on the role of the usual Bloch bands. For two different drivings (harmonic driving and periodic kicking through pulses) of systems with linear dispersion we demonstrate the existence of such oscillations, both by directly propagating wave packets and based on a complementary Floquet analysis. The Floquet oscillations feature richer oscillation patterns than their Bloch counterpart and enable the imaging of Floquet bands. Moreover, their period can be directly tuned through the driving frequency. Such oscillations should be experimentally observable in effective Dirac systems, such as graphene, when illuminated with circularly polarized light.



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Item typeArticle
Journal or Publication TitlePhysical Review B (PRB)
Publisher:American Physical Society
Volume:101
Number of Issue or Book Chapter:13
Page Range:p. 134302
Date2 April 2020
InstitutionsPhysics > Institute of Theroretical Physics > Chair Professor Richter > Group Klaus Richter
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10.1103/PhysRevB.101.134302DOI
1906.04446arXiv ID
KeywordsFloquet, Bloch, Floquet-Bloch oscillations, time periodic systems
Dewey Decimal Classification500 Science > 530 Physics
StatusPublished
RefereedYes, this version has been refereed
Created at the University of RegensburgYes
URN of the UB Regensburgurn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-432380
Item ID43238

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