Tunable Chern insulator with shaken optical lattices
Quantum Physics
2015-12-16 v3 Quantum Gases
Abstract
Driven optical lattices permit the engineering of effective dynamics with well-controllable tunneling properties. We describe the realization of a tunable a Chern insulator by driving particles on a shaken hexagonal lattice with optimally designed polychromatic driving forces. Its implementation does not require shallow lattices, which favors the study of strongly-correlated phases with non-trivial topology.
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@article{arxiv.1502.07350,
title = {Tunable Chern insulator with shaken optical lattices},
author = {Albert Verdeny and Florian Mintert},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1502.07350},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
Shortened version with focus on the optimal design of a Chern insulator; different title