Anomalous Hall Conductivity as an Effective Means of Tracking the Floquet Weyl Nodes in Quasi-One-Dimensional $β$-Bi$_4$I$_4$

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Autori principali: Huang, Qingfeng, Huang, Shengpu, Chen, Tingyan, Fan, Jing, Xu, Dong-Hui, Wu, Xiaozhi, Ma, Da-Shuai, Wang, Rui
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author Huang, Qingfeng
Huang, Shengpu
Chen, Tingyan
Fan, Jing
Xu, Dong-Hui
Wu, Xiaozhi
Ma, Da-Shuai
Wang, Rui
author_facet Huang, Qingfeng
Huang, Shengpu
Chen, Tingyan
Fan, Jing
Xu, Dong-Hui
Wu, Xiaozhi
Ma, Da-Shuai
Wang, Rui
contents While Floquet engineering offers a powerful paradigm for manipulating topological phases, particularly Floquet Weyl semimetals, establishing an experimentally feasible strategy for tracking the dynamic evolution of such states remains a significant challenge. Here, we propose that the anomalous Hall effect (AHE), as a sensitive, all-electrical probe, can be used to track Floquet Weyl nodes. Using first-principles calculations and symmetry analysis on the quasi-one-dimensional material $β$-Bi$_4$I$_4$, we demonstrate that circularly polarized light breaks time-reversal symmetry, driving the system from a trivial insulator into a Floquet Weyl semimetal phase characterized by a nonzero Berry curvature flux. Crucially, by continuously tuning the polarization phase $φ$ of the driving field, we show that the trajectory of the induced Weyl nodes is highly controllable, leading to their migration and eventual annihilation at high-symmetry points. We reveal that the anomalous Hall conductivity maps directly onto this topological evolution, serving as a definitive fingerprint for the generation and dynamics of Weyl nodes.
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spellingShingle Anomalous Hall Conductivity as an Effective Means of Tracking the Floquet Weyl Nodes in Quasi-One-Dimensional $β$-Bi$_4$I$_4$
Huang, Qingfeng
Huang, Shengpu
Chen, Tingyan
Fan, Jing
Xu, Dong-Hui
Wu, Xiaozhi
Ma, Da-Shuai
Wang, Rui
Materials Science
While Floquet engineering offers a powerful paradigm for manipulating topological phases, particularly Floquet Weyl semimetals, establishing an experimentally feasible strategy for tracking the dynamic evolution of such states remains a significant challenge. Here, we propose that the anomalous Hall effect (AHE), as a sensitive, all-electrical probe, can be used to track Floquet Weyl nodes. Using first-principles calculations and symmetry analysis on the quasi-one-dimensional material $β$-Bi$_4$I$_4$, we demonstrate that circularly polarized light breaks time-reversal symmetry, driving the system from a trivial insulator into a Floquet Weyl semimetal phase characterized by a nonzero Berry curvature flux. Crucially, by continuously tuning the polarization phase $φ$ of the driving field, we show that the trajectory of the induced Weyl nodes is highly controllable, leading to their migration and eventual annihilation at high-symmetry points. We reveal that the anomalous Hall conductivity maps directly onto this topological evolution, serving as a definitive fingerprint for the generation and dynamics of Weyl nodes.
title Anomalous Hall Conductivity as an Effective Means of Tracking the Floquet Weyl Nodes in Quasi-One-Dimensional $β$-Bi$_4$I$_4$
topic Materials Science
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.27514