Floquet engineering enabled by charge density wave transition
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| author | Wang, Fei Cai, Xuanxi Xiao, Teng Bao, Changhua Zhong, Haoyuan Chen, Wanying Lin, Tianyun Sheng, Tianshuang Tang, Xiao Zhang, Hongyun Yu, Pu Sun, Zhiyuan Zhou, Shuyun |
| author_facet | Wang, Fei Cai, Xuanxi Xiao, Teng Bao, Changhua Zhong, Haoyuan Chen, Wanying Lin, Tianyun Sheng, Tianshuang Tang, Xiao Zhang, Hongyun Yu, Pu Sun, Zhiyuan Zhou, Shuyun |
| contents | Floquet engineering has emerged as a powerful approach for dynamically tailoring the electronic structures of quantum materials through time-periodic light fields generated by ultrafast laser pulses. The light fields can transiently dress Bloch electrons, creating novel electronic states inaccessible in equilibrium. While such temporal modulation provides dynamic control, spatially periodic modulations, such as those arising from charge density wave (CDW) order, can also dramatically reconstruct the band structure through real-space symmetry breaking. The interplay between these two distinct forms of modulation-temporal and spatial-opens a new frontier in electronic-phase-dependent Floquet engineering. Here we demonstrate this concept experimentally in the prototypical CDW material 1T-TiSe$_2$. Using time- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (TrARPES) with mid-infrared pumping, we observe a striking pump-induced instantaneous downshift of the valence band maximum (VBM), which is in sharp contrast to the subsequent upward shift on picosecond timescale associated with CDW melting. Most remarkably, the light-induced VBM downshift is observed exclusively in the CDW phase and only when the pump pulse is present, reaching maximum when pumping near resonance with the CDW gap. These observations unequivocally reveal the critical role of CDW in the Floquet engineering of TiSe$_2$. Our work demonstrates how time-periodic drives can synergistically couple to spatially periodic modulations to create non-equilibrium electronic states, establishing a new paradigm for Floquet engineering enabled by spontaneous symmetry breaking. |
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| spellingShingle | Floquet engineering enabled by charge density wave transition Wang, Fei Cai, Xuanxi Xiao, Teng Bao, Changhua Zhong, Haoyuan Chen, Wanying Lin, Tianyun Sheng, Tianshuang Tang, Xiao Zhang, Hongyun Yu, Pu Sun, Zhiyuan Zhou, Shuyun Materials Science Floquet engineering has emerged as a powerful approach for dynamically tailoring the electronic structures of quantum materials through time-periodic light fields generated by ultrafast laser pulses. The light fields can transiently dress Bloch electrons, creating novel electronic states inaccessible in equilibrium. While such temporal modulation provides dynamic control, spatially periodic modulations, such as those arising from charge density wave (CDW) order, can also dramatically reconstruct the band structure through real-space symmetry breaking. The interplay between these two distinct forms of modulation-temporal and spatial-opens a new frontier in electronic-phase-dependent Floquet engineering. Here we demonstrate this concept experimentally in the prototypical CDW material 1T-TiSe$_2$. Using time- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (TrARPES) with mid-infrared pumping, we observe a striking pump-induced instantaneous downshift of the valence band maximum (VBM), which is in sharp contrast to the subsequent upward shift on picosecond timescale associated with CDW melting. Most remarkably, the light-induced VBM downshift is observed exclusively in the CDW phase and only when the pump pulse is present, reaching maximum when pumping near resonance with the CDW gap. These observations unequivocally reveal the critical role of CDW in the Floquet engineering of TiSe$_2$. Our work demonstrates how time-periodic drives can synergistically couple to spatially periodic modulations to create non-equilibrium electronic states, establishing a new paradigm for Floquet engineering enabled by spontaneous symmetry breaking. |
| title | Floquet engineering enabled by charge density wave transition |
| topic | Materials Science |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.18323 |