Magnonic Floquet Hofstadter Butterfly
arXiv:1809.09102 · doi:10.1016/j.aop.2018.10.005
Abstract
We introduce the magnonic Floquet Hofstadter butterfly in the two-dimensional insulating honeycomb ferromagnet. We show that when the insulating honeycomb ferromagnet is irradiated by an oscillating space- and time-dependent electric field, the hopping magnetic dipole moment (i.e. magnon quasiparticles) accumulate the Aharonov-Casher phase. In the case of only space-dependent electric field, we realize the magnonic Hofstadter spectrum with similar fractal structure as graphene subject to a perpendicular magnetic field, but with no spin degeneracy due to broken time-reversal symmetry by the ferromagnetic order. In addition, the magnonic Dirac points and Landau levels occur at finite energy as expected in a bosonic system. Remarkably, this discrepancy does not affect the topological invariant of the system. Consequently, the magnonic Chern number assumes odd values and the magnon Hall conductance gets quantized by odd integers. In the case of both space- and time-dependent electric field, the theoretical framework is studied by the Floquet formalism. We show that the magnonic Floquet Hofstadter spectrum emerges entirely from the oscillating space- and time-dependent electric field, which is in stark contrast to electronic Floquet Hofstadter spectrum, where irradiation by circularly polarized light and a perpendicular magnetic field are applied independently. We study the deformation of the fractal structure at different laser frequencies and amplitudes, and analyze the topological phase transitions associated with gap openings in the magnonic Floquet Hofstadter butterfly.
arXiv comment11 pages, 7 figures
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