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The concept of `Floquet engineering' relies on an external periodic drive to realise novel, effectively static Hamiltonians. This technique is being explored in experimental platforms across physics, including ultracold atoms, laser-driven…

The quantum system under periodical modulation is the simplest path to understand the quantum non-equilibrium system, because it can be well described by the effective static Floquet Hamiltonian. Under the stroboscopic measurement, the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-07-21 Xiao-Tong Lu , Tao Wang , Ting Li , Chi-Hua Zhou , Mo-Juan Yin , Ye-Bing Wang , Xue-Feng Zhang , Hong Chang

We have a comparative study of the quantum spin Hall (QSH) effects induced by non-magnetic and magnetic staggered potentials respectively and show that they have the same effect in driving the topological phase transition. The result…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Huaiming Guo , Shiping Feng , Shun-Qing Shen

Time crystals, a phase showing spontaneous breaking of time-translation symmetry, has been an intriguing subject for systems far away from equilibrium. Recent experiments found such a phase both in the presence and absence of localization,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-03-21 Biao Huang , Ying-Hai Wu , W. Vincent Liu

The transition from the quantum Hall state to the insulator is considered for non-interacting electrons in a two-dimensional disordered lattice model with perpendicular magnetic field. Using correlated random disorder potentials the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 H. Potempa , L. Schweitzer

In a periodically driven (Floquet) system, there is the possibility for new phases of matter, not present in stationary systems, protected by discrete time-translation symmetry. This includes topological phases protected in part by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-04-10 Dominic V. Else , Bela Bauer , Chetan Nayak

Floquet engineering or coherent time periodic driving of quantum systems has been successfully used to synthesize Hamiltonians with novel properties. In ultracold atomic systems, this has led to experimental realizations of artificial gauge…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-10-24 S. Subhankar , P. Bienias , P. Titum , T-C. Tsui , Y. Wang , A. V. Gorshkov , S. L. Rolston , J. V. Porto

Polar molecules confined in an optical lattice are a versatile platform to explore spin-motion dynamics based on strong, long-range dipolar interactions. The precise tunability of Ising and spin-exchange interactions with both microwave and…

We study a spinful, time-reversal symmetric lowest Landau level model for a flatband quantum spin Hall system at total filling fraction $\nu_\mathrm{T}=2/3$. Such models are relevant, e.g. for spin-valley locked moir\'e transition metal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-20 Roger Brunner , Titus Neupert , Glenn Wagner

Non-equilibrium control of electronic properties in condensed matter systems can result in novel phenomena. In this work, we provide a novel non-equilibrium route to realize half-metallic phases. We explore the periodically driven Hubbard…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-15 Suryashekhar Kusari , Arnab Das , H. R. Krishnamurthy , Arti Garg

Neutral atom arrays driven into Rydberg states constitute a promising approach for realizing programmable quantum systems. Enabled by strong interactions associated with Rydberg blockade, they allow for simulation of complex spin models and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-07 Nazlı Uğur Köylüoğlu , Nishad Maskara , Johannes Feldmeier , Mikhail D. Lukin

It is by now well established that periodically driven quantum many-body systems can realize topological nonequilibrium phases without any equilibrium counterpart. Here we show that, even in the absence of time translation symmetry,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-06-22 Hongzheng Zhao , Mark S. Rudner , Roderich Moessner , Johannes Knolle

Periodically driven systems, or Floquet systems, exhibit many novel dynamics and interesting out-of-equilibrium phases of matter. Those phases arising with the quantum systems' symmetries, such as global $U(1)$ symmetry, can even show…

We experimentally realized Floquet topological photonic insulators using a square lattice of direct-coupled octagonal resonators. Unlike previously reported topological insulator systems based on microring lattices, the nontrivial…

Optics · Physics 2020-07-01 Shirin Afzal , Tyler J. Zimmerling , Yang Ren , David Perron , Vien Van

In this paper, we study the existence of Floquet topological insulators for PT symmetric non-Hermitian Hamiltonians. We consider an array of waveguide in 1D with periodically changing non-Hermitian potential and predict the existence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-04 C. Yuce

Ultracold atomic gas provides a useful tool to explore many-body physics. One of the recent additions to this experimental toolbox is the Floquet engineering, where periodic modulation of the Hamiltonian allows the creation of effective…

Dynamic manipulation of magnetism in topological materials is demonstrated here via a Floquet engineering approach using circularly polarized light. Increasing the strength of the laser field, besides the expected topological phase…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-15 Xiaoyu Liu , Peizhe Tang , Hannes Hübener , Umberto De Giovannini , Wenhui Duan , Angel Rubio

The quantum spin Hall state is a topologically non-trivial insulator state protected by the time reversal symmetry. We show that such a state always leads to spin-charge separation in the presence of a $\pi$ flux. Our result is generally…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Xiao-Liang Qi , Shou-Cheng Zhang

Time-periodic driving fields could endow a system with peculiar topological and transport features. In this work, we find dynamically controlled localization transitions and mobility edges in non-Hermitian quasicrystals via shaking the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-25 Longwen Zhou

In this Letter we study various spin correlated insulating states of F=2 cold atoms in optical lattices. We find that the effective spin exchange interaction due to virtual hopping contains an {\em octopole} coupling between two neighboring…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Fei Zhou , Gordon W. Semenoff