%0 Journal Article
%T Dynamical manipulation of Dirac points in the Kitaev honeycomb model
%A Utso Bhattacharya
%A Sayak Dasgupta
%A Amit Dutta
%J Physics
%D 2015
%I arXiv
%X We study the effect of a half wave rectified sinusoidal electromagnetic (EM) wave on the Kitaev honeycomb model with an additional magneto-electric coupling term {arising due to induced polarization of the bonds. Within the framework of Floquet analysis, we show that merging of a pair of Dirac points in the gapless region of the Kitaev model leading to a semi-Dirac spectrum is indeed possible} by externally varying the amplitude and the phase of the EM field.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1508.04598v2