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Distinct Floquet topological classifications from color-decorated frequency lattices with space-time symmetries

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2023-11-27 v1 Quantum Physics

Abstract

We consider nontrivial topological phases in Floquet systems using unitary loops and stroboscopic evolutions under a static Floquet Hamiltonian HFH_F in the presence of dynamical space-time symmetries GG. While the latter has been subject of out-of-equilibrium classifications that extend the ten-fold way and systems with additional crystalline symmetries to periodically driven systems, we explore the anomalous topological zero modes that arise in HFH_F from the coexistence of a dynamical space-time symmetry MM and antisymmetry AA of GG, and classify them using a frequency-domain formulation. Moreover, we provide an interpretation of the resulting Floquet topological phases using a frequency lattice with a decoration represented by color degrees of freedom on the lattice vertices. These colors correspond to the coefficient NN of the group extension G~\tilde{G} of GG along the frequency lattice, given by N=ZH1[A,M]N=Z\rtimes H^1[A,M]. The distinct topological classifications that arise at different energy gaps in its quasi-energy spectrum are described by the torsion product of the cohomology group H2[G,N]H^{2}[G,N] classifying the group extension.

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@article{arxiv.2305.18532,
  title  = {Distinct Floquet topological classifications from color-decorated frequency lattices with space-time symmetries},
  author = {Ilyoun Na and Jack Kemp and Robert-Jan Slager and Yang Peng},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.18532},
  year   = {2023}
}

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4 pages + supplementary material