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Sita Kandel

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arXiv2026

Floquet Control of Electron and Exciton Transport in Kekul\'e-Distorted Graphene

This work investigates the Floquet dynamics of electrons and excitons (particle-hole pairs) in a Dirac material referred to as Kekul\'e-distorted graphene. Specifically, we examine the role played by a high frequency driving electromagnetic field on the tunneling and blocking by a potential barrier on both the charged single particles as well as the neutral composite particles. We demonstrate that the small effective masses of the electron and hole for the energy spectrum of this Kekul\'e distorted graphene leads to practically almost perfect transmission across a symmetric potential barrier for any angle of incidence of impinging excitons. However, this unexpected Klein paradox for excitons does not hold for the single-particle electrons. The reduced total transmission of electron due to Kekul\'e distortion is more suppressed due to irradiation. Additionally, we calculate and investigate the exciton binding energy since the quantum tunneling of a bound electron-hole pair across a potential barrier is governed by its mass measured in the center of mass and binding energy of the composite pair. Thus, irradiation with circularly polarized light fundamentally modifies exciton formation, coherence and transport properties, thereby producing unusual topological behaviors. These behaviors are unlike conventional Dirac materials. Possible technical applications of the results arising from our investigation include valleytronics due to the folding of the valleys, thereby making intervalley coupling feasible. Other practical applications include optoelectronics due to Floquet tuning of energy spectrum and transport properties.

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arXiv2025

Tuning excitons and superfluidity of dipolar excitons in the double layers of kagome lattice by applying circularly polarized irradiation

We present detailed calculations for several significant properties of the kagome lattice. We employ the Floquet-Magnus perturbation expansion to obtain the energy bands and the corresponding wave functions near the Dirac points for the kagome lattice in the presence of circularly or linearly polarized irradiation. In contrast with linearly polarized irradiation, a band gap is opened up near the Dirac points, between the valence and conduction bands in the presence of circularly polarized irradiation. We calculated the exciton binding energy, and the exciton energy for gapped kagome lattice as a function of the frequency and intensity of the irradiation. We compare the exciton binding energy and exciton energy in a monolayer with those in a double layer separated by an insulator to inhibit recombination. We predict that a phase transition in the kagome lattice from the semiconducting phase to the excitonic insulating phase can be induced by applying irradiation. We also examined the conditions for such a phase transition. We explore opportunities to tune exciton binding energy, the energy spectrum of collective excitations, the sound velocity and the critical temperature of the superfluidity by applying circularly polarized irradiation. We propose observation of Bose-Einstein condensation and superfluidity of quasi-two-dimensional dipolar excitons in two-layer kagome lattices in the presence of pumping by circularly polarized light. We have also analyzed the dependence of superfluid density $n_s$ and the temperature of the Kosterlitz-Thouless phase transition temperature on excitonic density n, the interlayer separation D and the parameters for circularly polarized light.

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arXiv2024

Influence of Dynamical Floquet Spectrum on the Plasmon Excitations and Exchange Energy of tilted monolayer 1T$^\prime$MoS$_2$

It is now well established that a high-frequency electromagnetic dressing field within the off-resonance regime significantly modifies the electronic transport and optical properties on Dirac materials. Here, using light with circular polarization, we investigate its effect on the energy spectrum of tilted monolayer 1T$^\prime$MoS$_2$ which acquires two energy gaps associated with up- and down- pseudospin. We can adjust its electronic properties over a wider range by varying these two band gaps in contrast with graphene. With the use of the Lindhard approach for the frequency-dependent polarizability propagator, we have developed a rigorous theoretical formalism for employing the Floquet energy spectrum for investigating the many-body effects on the plasmon excitations, their lifetimes due to Landau damping and the exchange energy of tilted monolayer 1T$^\prime$MoS$_2$ under normal incidence of electromagnetic radiation at arbitrary temperature. The dressed states at very low temperature corresponding to circular polarization suppress the response of the system to the external probe. This gives rise to the weak but long lived plasmon excitations at small wavenumber $q$ when compared to the plasmon spectrum in this regime in the absence of irradiation. However, $\sqrt{qT}$-dependent plasmons are restored at high temperatures. Our calculations have shown that the tilting, anisotropy, direct and indirect band gaps lead to a reduced exchange energy, which has some potential applications such as, tunability of exciton polariton and plasmon excitations.

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arXiv2023

Anisotropic optical conductivities of Model Topological nodal-line Semimetals

With the use of simple models, we investigated the optical conductivity of a nodal-line semimetal (NLSM) whose crossing of the conduction and valence bands near the origin ($O$ point) in the ($k_x,k_y$) plane of a small cubic region can be adjusted by a parameter $α$. The Hamiltonian of the NLSM is based on the ${\bf k}\cdot {\bf p}$ model for the low-lying energy bands. When $α=0$, these bands touch each other along a continuous closed loop but the opening of a band gap corresponding to finite values of $α$ and the varying of the carrier concentration can be adjusted. This provides a tunable semiconductor gap, around the $O$ point and the valence and conduction bands can meet at a pair of points within the small cubic region in ${\bf k }$ space. The optical conductivity of such a NLSM is calculated using the Kubo formula with emphasis on the optical spectral weight redistribution, deduced from appropriate Green's functions, brought about by changes in gap and chemical potential due to modifying $α$. We derived closed-form semi-analytic expressions for the longitudinal components of the optical conductivity for these model systems of NLSM and compare results for chosen $α$ and chemical potential. We also present results for the heat capacity when the system is in thermal equilibrium for various chosen $α$ and chemical potential.

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