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Classification of interacting Floquet phases with $U(1)$ symmetry in two dimensions

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2021-02-10 v1 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks Quantum Physics

Abstract

We derive a complete classification of Floquet phases of interacting bosons and fermions with U(1)U(1) symmetry in two spatial dimensions. According to our classification, there is a one-to-one correspondence between these Floquet phases and rational functions π(z)=a(z)/b(z)\pi(z) = a(z)/b(z) where a(z)a(z) and b(z)b(z) are polynomials obeying certain conditions and zz is a formal parameter. The physical meaning of π(z)\pi(z) involves the stroboscopic edge dynamics of the corresponding Floquet system: in the case of bosonic systems, π(z)=pqπ~(z)\pi(z) = \frac{p}{q} \cdot \tilde{\pi}(z) where pq\frac{p}{q} is a rational number which characterizes the flow of quantum information at the edge during each driving period, and π~(z)\tilde{\pi}(z) is a rational function which characterizes the flow of U(1)U(1) charge at the edge. A similar decomposition exists in the fermionic case. We also show that π~(z)\tilde{\pi}(z) is directly related to the time-averaged U(1)U(1) current that flows in a particular geometry. This U(1)U(1) current is a generalization of the quantized current and quantized magnetization density found in previous studies of non-interacting fermionic Floquet phases.

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@article{arxiv.2010.02253,
  title  = {Classification of interacting Floquet phases with $U(1)$ symmetry in two dimensions},
  author = {Carolyn Zhang and Michael Levin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.02253},
  year   = {2021}
}