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Correspondence between a shaken honeycomb lattice and the Haldane model

Quantum Gases 2017-11-08 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We investigate the correspondence between the tight-binding Floquet Hamiltonian of a periodically modulated honeycomb lattice and the Haldane model. We show that - though the two systems share the same topological phase diagram, as reported in a breakthrough experiment with ultracold atoms in a stretched honeycomb lattice [Jotzu et al., Nature 515, 237 (2014)] - the corresponding Hamiltonians are not equivalent, the one of the shaken lattice presenting a much richer structure.

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@article{arxiv.1708.00242,
  title  = {Correspondence between a shaken honeycomb lattice and the Haldane model},
  author = {Michele Modugno and Giulio Pettini},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.00242},
  year   = {2017}
}

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8 pages, 7 figures