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Arijit Kundu1, H A Fertig1, Babak Seradjeh1
1Department of Physics, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA.
Abstract:
We develop a theory of topological transitions in a Floquet topological insulator, using graphene irradiated by circularly polarized light as a concrete realization. We demonstrate that a hallmark signature of such transitions in a static system, i.e., metallic bulk transport with conductivity of order e^{2}/h, is substantially suppressed at some Floquet topological transitions in the clean system. We determine the conditions for this suppression analytically and confirm our results in numerical simulations. Remarkably, introducing disorder dramatically enhances this transport by several orders of magnitude.
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