Floquet Chiral Magnetic Effect

A single Weyl fermion, which is prohibited in static lattice systems by the Nielsen-Ninomiya theorem, is shown to be realized in a periodically driven three-dimensional lattice system with a topologically nontrivial Floquet unitary operator, manifesting the chiral magnetic effect. We give a topologi...

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Published in:Physical review letters 2019-08, Vol.123 (6), p.066403-066403, Article 066403
Main Authors: Higashikawa, Sho, Nakagawa, Masaya, Ueda, Masahito
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Fermions
Magnetic effects
Topological insulators
Topology
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Summary:A single Weyl fermion, which is prohibited in static lattice systems by the Nielsen-Ninomiya theorem, is shown to be realized in a periodically driven three-dimensional lattice system with a topologically nontrivial Floquet unitary operator, manifesting the chiral magnetic effect. We give a topological classification of Floquet unitary operators in the Altland-Zirnbauer symmetry classes for all dimensions, and use it to predict that all gapless surface states of topological insulators and superconductors can emerge in bulk quasienergy spectra of Floquet systems.
ISSN:0031-9007
1079-7114
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.066403