Tuning anomalous Floquet topological bands with ultracold atoms
Abstract
The Floquet engineering opens the way to create new topological states without counterparts in static systems. Here, we report the experimental realization and characterization of new anomalous topological states with high-precision Floquet engineering for ultracold atoms trapped in a shaking optical Raman lattice. The Floquet band topology is manipulated by tuning the driving-induced band crossings referred to as band inversion surfaces (BISs), whose configurations fully characterize the topology of the underlying states. We uncover various exotic anomalous topological states by measuring the configurations of BISs which correspond to the bulk Floquet topology. In particular, we identify an unprecedented anomalous Floquet valley-Hall state that possesses anomalous helicallike edge modes protected by valleys and a chiral state with high Chern number.
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@article{arxiv.2211.04739,
title = {Tuning anomalous Floquet topological bands with ultracold atoms},
author = {Jin-Yi Zhang and Chang-Rui Yi and Long Zhang and Rui-Heng Jiao and Kai-Ye Shi and Huan Yuan and Wei Zhang and Xiong-Jun Liu and Shuai Chen and Jian-Wei Pan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.04739},
year = {2024}
}