Light-induced emergent phenomena in 2D materials and topological materials

C Bao, P Tang, D Sun, S Zhou - Nature Reviews Physics, 2022 - nature.com
Light–matter interaction in 2D and topological materials provides a fascinating control knob
for inducing emergent, non-equilibrium properties and achieving new functionalities in the …

Engineering symmetry breaking in 2D layered materials

L Du, T Hasan, A Castellanos-Gomez, GB Liu… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Symmetry breaking in 2D layered materials plays a significant role in their macroscopic
electrical, optical, magnetic and topological properties, including, but not limited to, spin …

Light–valley interactions in 2D semiconductors

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S Zhou, C Bao, B Fan, F Wang, H Zhong, H Zhang… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Time-periodic light field can dress the electronic states and lead to light-induced emergent
properties in quantum materials. While below-gap pum** is regarded favorable for …

Disentangling many-body effects in the coherent optical response of 2D semiconductors

C Trovatello, F Katsch, Q Li, X Zhu, A Knorr… - Nano Letters, 2022 - ACS Publications
In single-layer (1L) transition metal dichalcogenides, the reduced Coulomb screening
results in strongly bound excitons which dominate the linear and the nonlinear optical …

Observation of Floquet states and their dephasing in colloidal nanoplatelets driven by visible pulses

Y Li, Y Yang, Y Liu, J Zhu, K Wu - Nature Photonics, 2024 - nature.com
Coherent interaction between light and matter generates photon-dressed replicas of the
original electronic levels (that is, Floquet states). This opens up a so-called field of Floquet …

Vacuum Bloch–Siegert shift in Landau polaritons with ultra-high cooperativity

X Li, M Bamba, Q Zhang, S Fallahi, GC Gardner… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
A two-level system resonantly interacting with an ac magnetic or electric field constitutes the
physical basis of diverse phenomena and technologies. However, Schrödinger's equation …