Tuning of Bilayer Graphene Heterostructure by Horizontally Incident Circular Polarized Light

Abstract

We theoretically investigated the Floquet states of bilayer graphene heterostructure under the irradiation by horizontally incident circular polarized light. The in-plane and out-of-plane electric field of the light periodically perturbs the intra-layer and inter-layer hopping, respectively. For circular polarized light, the two components of the electric field has $\pi /2$ phase difference, so that the two types of hopping are periodically perturbed with the $\pi /2$ phase difference, which modify the effective inter-layer hopping. We focus on the model of bilayer graphene in the heterostructure of antiferromagnetic van der Walls spin valve. The amplitude of the irradiation can tune the band gap and topological properties of the bulk state. The spin-polarized quantum anomalous Hall phase with Chern number being one is predicted. The incident angle of the irradiation can tune the band gap and dispersion of the edge states in zigzag nanoribbons.

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