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Electronic Floquet gyro-liquid crystal

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  • Iliya Esin

    (Technion
    California Institute of Technology)

  • Gaurav Kumar Gupta

    (Technion)

  • Erez Berg

    (Weizmann Institute of Science)

  • Mark S. Rudner

    (Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen)

  • Netanel H. Lindner

    (Technion)

Abstract

Floquet engineering uses coherent time-periodic drives to realize designer band structures on-demand, thus yielding a versatile approach for inducing a wide range of exotic quantum many-body phenomena. Here we show how this approach can be used to induce non-equilibrium correlated states with spontaneously broken symmetry in lightly doped semiconductors. In the presence of a resonant driving field, the system spontaneously develops quantum liquid crystalline order featuring strong anisotropy whose directionality rotates as a function of time. The phase transition occurs in the steady state of the system achieved due to the interplay between the coherent external drive, electron-electron interactions, and dissipative processes arising from the coupling to phonons and the electromagnetic environment. We obtain the phase diagram of the system using numerical calculations that match predictions obtained from a phenomenological treatment and discuss the conditions on the system and the external drive under which spontaneous symmetry breaking occurs. Our results demonstrate that coherent driving can be used to induce non-equilibrium quantum phases of matter with dynamical broken symmetry.

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  • Iliya Esin & Gaurav Kumar Gupta & Erez Berg & Mark S. Rudner & Netanel H. Lindner, 2021. "Electronic Floquet gyro-liquid crystal," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 12(1), pages 1-12, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:12:y:2021:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-021-25511-9
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-25511-9
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