Five-dimensional Floquet topological semimetals with emergent Yang monopoles and linked Weyl surfaces

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Main Authors: Liu, Zheng-Rong, Chen, Rui, Zhou, Bin
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author Liu, Zheng-Rong
Chen, Rui
Zhou, Bin
author_facet Liu, Zheng-Rong
Chen, Rui
Zhou, Bin
contents Recently, Floquet topological matter has attracted significant attention for its potential to reveal novel topological phases inaccessible in static systems. In this paper, we investigate the effect of a time-periodic driving on the five-dimensional (5D) normal insulators. We show that the time-periodic driving can induce a topological phase transition from a \textbf{TP} (time reversal combined with space inversion) symmetry-preserving normal insulator to a 5D Floquet topological semimetal with emergent Yang monopoles characterized by the second Chern number. Additionally, we show that this time-periodic driving can also lead to a topological phase transition from a \textbf{TP} symmetry-breaking normal insulator to a 5D Floquet topological semimetal with a Hopf link formed by Weyl surfaces. Besides, further increasing the strength of the time-periodic driving, the two 5D Floquet topological semimetal phases are transformed into the 5D Floquet Chern insulators. Our paper is helpful for future studies in higher dimensional Floquet systems.
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spellingShingle Five-dimensional Floquet topological semimetals with emergent Yang monopoles and linked Weyl surfaces
Liu, Zheng-Rong
Chen, Rui
Zhou, Bin
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Recently, Floquet topological matter has attracted significant attention for its potential to reveal novel topological phases inaccessible in static systems. In this paper, we investigate the effect of a time-periodic driving on the five-dimensional (5D) normal insulators. We show that the time-periodic driving can induce a topological phase transition from a \textbf{TP} (time reversal combined with space inversion) symmetry-preserving normal insulator to a 5D Floquet topological semimetal with emergent Yang monopoles characterized by the second Chern number. Additionally, we show that this time-periodic driving can also lead to a topological phase transition from a \textbf{TP} symmetry-breaking normal insulator to a 5D Floquet topological semimetal with a Hopf link formed by Weyl surfaces. Besides, further increasing the strength of the time-periodic driving, the two 5D Floquet topological semimetal phases are transformed into the 5D Floquet Chern insulators. Our paper is helpful for future studies in higher dimensional Floquet systems.
title Five-dimensional Floquet topological semimetals with emergent Yang monopoles and linked Weyl surfaces
topic Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.14333