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  • Title: Magnonic Floquet Quantum Spin Hall Insulator in Bilayer Collinear Antiferromagnets.
    Author: Owerre SA.
    Journal: Sci Rep; 2019 May 10; 9(1):7197. PubMed ID: 31076602.
    Abstract:
    We study irradiated two-dimensional insulating bilayer honeycomb ferromagnets and antiferromagnets coupled antiferromagnetically with a zero net magnetization. The former is realized in the recently synthesized bilayer honeycomb chromium triiodide CrI3. In both systems, we show that circularly-polarized electric field breaks time-reversal symmetry and induces a dynamical Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in each honeycomb layer. However, the resulting bilayer antiferromagnetic system still preserves a combination of time-reversal and space-inversion ([Formula: see text]) symmetry. We show that the magnon topology of the bilayer antiferromagnetic system is characterized by a [Formula: see text] Floquet topological invariant. Therefore, the system realizes a magnonic Floquet quantum spin Hall insulator with spin filtered magnon edge states. This leads to a non-vanishing Floquet magnon spin Nernst effect, whereas the Floquet magnon thermal Hall effect vanishes due to [Formula: see text] symmetry. We study the rich [Formula: see text] Floquet topological magnon phase diagram of the system as a function of the light amplitudes and polarizations. We further discuss the great impact of the results on future experimental realizations.
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