Electronic Floquet gyro-liquid crystal

oleh: Iliya Esin, Gaurav Kumar Gupta, Erez Berg, Mark S. Rudner, Netanel H. Lindner

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2021-09-01

Deskripsi

The nonequilibrium regime provides an exciting frontier in the search for novel quantum phases of matter. Here, the authors show that optically driving a lightly-doped semiconductor can lead to the spontaneous formation of a dynamical quantum liquid crystalline phase with a rotating magnetization.