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Mitigating higher-band heating in Floquet-Hubbard lattices via two-tone driving

Quantum Gases 2025-07-23 v2 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Atomic Physics Quantum Physics

Abstract

Multi-photon resonances to high-lying energy levels represent an unavoidable source of Floquet heating in strongly driven quantum systems. In this work, we extend the recently developed two-tone approach of 'cancelling' multi-photon resonances to shaken lattices in the Hubbard regime. Our experiments show that even for strong lattice shaking the inclusion of a weak second drive leads to cancellation of multi-photon heating resonances. Surprisingly, the optimal cancelling amplitude depends on the Hubbard interaction strength UU, in qualitative agreement with exact diagonalisation calculations. Our results call for novel analytical approaches to capture the physics of strongly-driven-strongly-interacting many-body systems.

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@article{arxiv.2410.12308,
  title  = {Mitigating higher-band heating in Floquet-Hubbard lattices via two-tone driving},
  author = {Yuanning Chen and Zijie Zhu and Konrad Viebahn},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.12308},
  year   = {2025}
}