Berry Curvature Spectroscopy from Bloch Oscillations.

Atomic scale; Bloch oscillations; Fourier components; Hall conductivity; Optical response; Real-space; Space periodicity; Static electric fields; Static fields; Tera Hertz; Physics and Astronomy (all); Physics - Mesoscopic Systems and Quantum Hall Effect

Abstract :

[en] Artificial crystals such as moiré superlattices can have a real-space periodicity much larger than the underlying atomic scale. This facilitates the presence of Bloch oscillations in the presence of a static electric field. We demonstrate that the optical response of such a system, when dressed with a static field, becomes resonant at the frequencies of Bloch oscillations, which are in the terahertz regime when the lattice constant is of the order of 10 nm. In particular, we show within a semiclassical band-projected theory that resonances in the dressed Hall conductivity are proportional to the lattice Fourier components of the Berry curvature. We illustrate our results with a low-energy model on an effective honeycomb lattice.

Disciplines :

Physics

Author, co-author :

DE BEULE, Christophe ; University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine > Department of Physics and Materials Science > Team Thomas SCHMIDT

Mele, E J ; Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA

External co-authors :

yes

Language :

English

Title :

Berry Curvature Spectroscopy from Bloch Oscillations.

Publication date :

10 November 2023

Journal title :

Physical Review Letters

ISSN :

0031-9007

eISSN :

1079-7114

Publisher :

American Physical Society, United States

Volume :

131

Issue :

Pages :

196603

Peer reviewed :

Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi

Focus Area :

Physics and Materials Science

Additional URL :

https://link.aps.org/accepted/10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.196603

Funders :

Fonds National de la Recherche Luxembourg
U.S. Department of Energy

Funding text :

We thank V. T. Phong for discussions. This research was funded in whole, or in part, by the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR) (Project No. 16515716). C. D. B. and E. J. M. are supported by the Department of Energy under Grant No. DE-FG02-84ER45118.

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