Floquet Topological Magnons

Abstract

We introduce the concept of Floquet topological magnons --- a mechanism by which a synthetic tunable Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) can be generated in quantum magnets using circularly polarized electric (laser) field. The resulting effect is that Dirac magnons and nodal magnons in two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) quantum magnets can be tuned to magnon Chern insulators and Weyl magnons respectively under circularly polarized laser field. The Floquet formalism also yields a tunable intrinsic DMI in insulating quantum magnets without an inversion center. We demonstrate that the Floquet topological magnons possess a finite thermal Hall conductivity tunable by the laser field.

5+3 pages, 4+2 figures. Revised version implementing corrections from Corrigendum J. Phys. Commun. 1, 021002 (2017)

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