Tunable Topological Phases in Multilayer Graphene Coupled to a Chiral Cavity

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2504.03842v1
• Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2025 18:00:05 GMT
• Title: Tunable Topological Phases in Multilayer Graphene Coupled to a Chiral Cavity
• Authors: Sayed Ali Akbar Ghorashi, Jennifer Cano, Ceren B. Dag,
• Abstract summary: Coupling photonic cavity fields to electronic degrees of freedom in 2D materials introduces an additional control knob to the toolbox of solid-state engineering.<n>We demonstrate a subtle competition between cavity frequency and interlayer tunneling in graphene stacks that is responsible for topological phase transitions in light-matter Hilbert space.<n>Our findings pave the way for future control and engineering of graphene heterostructures with chiral cavity fields.
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• Abstract: Coupling photonic cavity fields to electronic degrees of freedom in 2D materials introduces an additional control knob to the toolbox of solid-state engineering. Here we demonstrate a subtle competition between cavity frequency and interlayer tunneling in graphene stacks that is responsible for topological phase transitions in light-matter Hilbert space and that cannot be captured by mean-field theory in vacuum. A systematic exploration of multilayer graphene heterostructures and stacking configurations in a chiral tHz cavity reveals that linear dispersion enhances the low-energy cavity-induced topological gap. In bilayer graphene, a displacement field drives the low-energy vacuum band from valley-Chern to Chern insulator, comprising a gate-tunable topological phase transition. Furthermore, we show that a chiral cavity breaks not only the time-reversal symmetry of bilayer graphene but also the inversion symmetry, which impacts its edge spectrum. Our findings pave the way for future control and engineering of graphene heterostructures with chiral cavity fields.

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