Anti-screening and nonequilibrium layer electric phases in graphene multilayers
arXiv:2402.14918 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.136901
Abstract
Screening is a ubiquitous phenomenon through which the polarization of bound or mobile charges tends to reduce the strengths of electric fields inside materials. Here we show how photoexcitation can be used as a knob to transform conventional out-of-plane screening into anti-screening - the amplification of electric fields - in multilayer graphene stacks. We find that, by varying the photoexcitation intensity, multiple nonequilibrium screening regimes can be accessed, including near-zero screening, anti-screening, or overscreening (reversing electric fields). Strikingly, at modest continuous wave photoexcitation intensities, the nonequilibrium polarization states become multistable, hosting light-induced ferroelectric-like steady states with nonvanishing out-of-plane polarization (and band gaps) even in the absence of an externally applied displacement field in nominally inversion symmetric stacks. This rich phenomenology reveals a novel paradigm of dynamical quantum matter that we expect will enable a variety of nonequilibrium broken symmetry phases.
arXiv comment9 pages, 4 figures
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