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Designing nontrivial one-dimensional Floquet topological phases using a spin-1/2 double-kicked rotor

Quantum Gases 2023-11-27 v2

Abstract

A quantum kicked rotor model is one of the promising systems to realize various Floquet topological phases. We consider a double-kicked rotor model for a one-dimensional quasi-spin-1/2 Bose-Einstein condensate with spin-dependent and spin-independent kicks which are implementable for cold atomic experiments. We theoretically show that the model can realize all the Altland-Zirnbauer classes with nontrivial topology in one dimension. In the case of class CII, we show that a pair of winding numbers (w0,wπ)2Z×2Z(w_0,w_\pi)\in 2\mathbb{Z}\times 2\mathbb{Z} featuring the edge states at zero and π\pi quasienergy, respectively, takes various values depending on the strengths of the kicks. We also find that the winding numbers change to Z\mathbb{Z} when we break the time-reversal and particle-hole symmetries by changing the phase of a kicking lattice. We numerically confirm that the winding numbers can be obtained by measuring the mean chiral displacement in the long-time limit in the present case with four internal degrees of freedom. We further propose two feasible methods to experimentally realize the spin-dependent and spin-independent kicks required for various topological phases.

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@article{arxiv.2303.13982,
  title  = {Designing nontrivial one-dimensional Floquet topological phases using a spin-1/2 double-kicked rotor},
  author = {Yusuke Koyama and Kazuya Fujimoto and Shuta Nakajima and Yuki Kawaguchi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.13982},
  year   = {2023}
}