Quantized large-bias current in the anomalous Floquet-Anderson insulator

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  • Arijit Kundu
  • Mark Rudner
  • Erez Berg
  • Netanel H. Lindner

We study two-terminal transport through two-dimensional periodically driven systems in which all bulk Floquet eigenstates are localized by disorder. We focus on the anomalous Floquet-Anderson insulator (AFAI) phase, a topologically nontrivial phase within this class, which hosts topologically protected chiral edge modes coexisting with its fully localized bulk. We show that the unique properties of the AFAI yield remarkable far-from-equilibrium transport signatures: for a large bias between leads, a quantized amount of charge is transported through the system each driving period. Upon increasing the bias, the chiral Floquet edge mode connecting source to drain becomes fully occupied and the current rapidly approaches its quantized value.

Original languageEnglish
Article number041403
JournalPhysical Review B
Volume101
Issue number4
Number of pages6
ISSN2469-9950
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 8 Jan 2020

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