Correlation-Induced Topological Reconstruction in a Periodically Driven Kagome Mott Insulator
Abstract
We study the interplay between electronic correlations and circularly polarized periodic driving in the Hubbard model on a Kagome lattice. Using Brillouin-Wigner perturbation theory, we derive an effective Floquet Hamiltonian in which the drive renormalizes the bare hopping and generates chiral nearest- and next-nearest-neighbor terms, producing repeated topological transitions and a flat band whose position is continuously tunable across the spectrum. Within slave-rotor mean-field theory, we show that the resulting Mott transition is strongly non-monotonic in the drive amplitude, yielding repeated metal-insulator transitions, and that the spinon excitations inside the Mott phase acquire a band topology distinct from that of the non-interacting Floquet bands. This correlation-driven topological reconstruction produces emergent flat-band spinon insulators inaccessible to either driving or interactions alone. Our results establish periodically driven Kagome systems as a platform for engineering correlated topological flat-band physics out of equilibrium, with proposed realizations in ultracold atomic lattices.
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@article{arxiv.2607.02717,
title = {Correlation-Induced Topological Reconstruction in a Periodically Driven Kagome Mott Insulator},
author = {Rahul Ghosh and Subhajyoti Pal and Ganesh C Paul},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.02717},
year = {2026}
}