Floquet Valley-Polarized Quantum Anomalous Hall State in Nonmagnetic Heterobilayers
arXiv:2110.11009 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.105.L081115
Abstract
The valley-polarized quantum anomalous Hall (VQAH) state, which forwards a strategy for combining valleytronics and spintronics with nontrivial topology, attracts intensive interest in condensed-matter physics. So far, the explored VQAH states have still been limited to magnetic systems. Here, using the low-energy effective model and Floquet theorem, we propose a different mechanism to realize the Floquet VQAH state in nonmagnetic heterobilayers under light irradiation. We then realize this proposal via first-principles calculations in transition metal dichalcogenide heterobilayers, which initially possess the time-reversal invariant valley quantum spin Hall (VQSH) state. By irradiating circularly polarized light, the time-reversal invariant VQSH state can evolve into the VQAH state, behaving as an optically switchable topological spin-valley filter. These findings not only offer a rational scheme to realize the VQAH state without magnetic orders, but also pave a fascinating path for designing topological spintronic and valleytronic devices.
6 pages, 4 figures, Supplemental Material
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