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  • Light-induced anomalous Hal...
    McIver, J W; Schulte, B; Stein, F-U; Matsuyama, T; Jotzu, G; Meier, G; Cavalleri, A

    Nature physics, 01/2020, Letnik: 16, Številka: 1
    Journal Article

    Many non-equilibrium phenomena have been discovered or predicted in optically-driven quantum solids . Examples include light-induced superconductivity and Floquet-engineered topological phases . These are short lived effects that should lead to measurable changes in electrical transport, which can be characterized using an ultrafast device architecture based on photoconductive switches . Here, we report the observation of a light-induced anomalous Hall effect in monolayer graphene driven by a femtosecond pulse of circularly polarized light. The dependence of the effect on a gate potential used to tune the Fermi level reveals multiple features that reflect a Floquet-engineered topological band structure , similar to the band structure originally proposed by Haldane . This includes an approximately 60 meV wide conductance plateau centered at the Dirac point, where a gap of equal magnitude is predicted to open. We find that when the Fermi level lies within this plateau, the estimated anomalous Hall conductance saturates around 1.8±0.4 e /h.