Interacting Floquet topological magnons in laser-irradiated Heisenberg honeycomb ferromagnets

Abstract: When a Heisenberg honeycomb ferromagnet is irradiated by high frequency circularly polarized light, the underlying uncharged magnons acquire a time dependent Aharonov Casher phase, which makes it a Floquet topological magnon insulator. In this context, we investigate the many body interaction effects of Floquet magnons in laser irradiated Heisenberg honeycomb ferromagnets with ocontaining Dzyaloshinskii Moriya interaction under the application of circularly polarized off resonant light. We demonstrate that the quantum ferromagnet systems periodically laser driven exhibits temperature driven topological phase transitions due to Floquet magnon magnon interactions. The thermal Hall effect of Floquet magnons serves as a prominent signature for detecting these many body effects near the critical point, enabling experimental investigation into this phenomenon. Our study complements the lack of previous theoretical works that the topological phase transition of the Floquet magnon under the linear spin wave approximation is only tunable by the light field. Our study presents a novel approach for constructing Floquet topological phases in periodically driven quantum magnet systems that goes beyond the limitations of the linear spin wave theory. We provide numerical results based on the well known van der Waals quantum magnet CrX3 (X=F, Cl, Br, and I), calling for experimental implementation.