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One-dimensional Floquet topological superconductors possess two types of degenerate Majorana edge modes at zero and $\pi$ quasieneriges, leaving more room for the design of boundary time crystals and quantum computing schemes than their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-06 Hailing Wu , Shenlin Wu , Longwen Zhou

We report the theoretical discovery and characterization of higher-order Floquet topological phases dynamically generated in a periodically driven system with mirror symmetries. We demonstrate numerically and analytically that these phases…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Martin Rodriguez-Vega , Abhishek Kumar , Babak Seradjeh

Non-Abelian topological insulators are characterized by matrix-valued, non-commuting topological charges with regard to more than one energy gap. Their descriptions go beyond the conventional topological band theory, in which an additive…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-11 Jiaxin Pan , Longwen Zhou

Topological phases in quantum and classical systems have been of significant recent interest due to their fascinating physical properties. While a range of different mechanisms to induce topological order have been introduced, a quest for…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-08-07 Mengyao Li , Xiang Ni , Matthew Weiner , Andrea Alù , Alexander B. Khanikaev

Floquet topological phases emerge when systems are periodically driven out-of-equilibrium. They gained attention due to their external control, which allows to simulate a wide variety of static systems by just tuning the external field in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-20 Álvaro Gómez-León

Recently, effects of nonlinearity on topologically nontrivial systems have attracted attention and the stability of topologically protected edge states has been studied for a quantum walk with nonlinear effects, which is akin to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-29 Ken Mochizuki , Norio Kawakami , Hideaki Obuse

We report on the fate of the quantum Hall effect in graphene under strong laser illumination. By using Floquet theory combined with both a low energy description and full tight-binding models, we clarify the selection rules, the quasienergy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-10 A. Huamán , L. E. F. Foa Torres , C. A. Balseiro , Gonzalo Usaj

Recently, anomalous Floquet topological phases without static counterparts have been observed in different systems, where periodically driven models are realized to support a winding number of 1 and a pair of edge modes in each quasienergy…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-03-20 Kaiye Shi , Xiang Zhang , Wei Zhang

The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model of polyacetylene is a paradigmatic Hamiltonian exhibiting non-trivial edge states. By using Floquet theory we study how the spectrum of this one-dimensional topological insulator is affected by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-01 V. Dal Lago , M. Atala , L. E. F. Foa Torres

Topological materials, known for their edge states robust against local perturbations, hold promise for next-generation quantum technologies, but remain scarce in nature and challenging to realize in static systems. The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger…

Higher-order topological phases (HOTPs) are characterized by symmetry-protected bound states at the corners or hinges of the system. In this work, we reveal a momentum-space counterpart of HOTPs in time-periodic driven systems, which are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-03 Longwen Zhou

The possibility of attaining chiral edge modes under periodic driving has spurred tremendous attention, both theoretically and experimentally, especially in light of anomalous Floquet topological phases that feature vanishing Chern numbers…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-01-04 Miguel F. Martínez , F. Nur Ünal

Recently the creation of novel topological states of matter by a periodic driving field has attracted great attention. To motivate further experimental and theoretical studies, we investigate interesting aspects of Floquet bands and…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-19 Longwen Zhou , Hailong Wang , Derek Y. H. Ho , Jiangbin Gong

The recent discoveries of higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs) have shifted the paradigm of topological materials, which was previously limited to topological states at boundaries of materials, to those at boundaries of boundaries,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-17 Weiwei Zhu , Haoran Xue , Jiangbin Gong , Yidong Chong , Baile Zhang

Floquet engineering, modulating quantum systems in a time periodic way, lies at the central part for realizing novel topological dynamical states. Thanks to the Floquet engineering, various new realms on experimentally simulating…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-13 Huan-Yu Wang , Xiao-Ming Zhao , Lin Zhuang , Wu-Ming Liu

Topological insulators represent unique phases of matter with insulating bulk and conducting edge or surface states, immune to small perturbations such as backscattering due to disorder. This stems from their peculiar band structure, which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-01 Jérôme Cayssol , Balázs Dóra , Ferenc Simon , Roderich Moessner

We introduce a Floquet quasicrystal that simulates the motion of Bloch electrons in a homogeneous magnetic field in discrete time steps. We admit the hopping to be non-reciprocal which, via a generalized Aubry duality, leads us to push the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-09 Christopher Cedzich , Jake Fillman

We theoretically propose how to observe topological effects in a generic classical system of coupled harmonic oscillators, such as classical pendula or lumped-element electric circuits, whose oscillation frequency is modulated fast in time.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-04 Grazia Salerno , Tomoki Ozawa , Hannah M. Price , Iacopo Carusotto

We introduce traveling Floquet valley Hall edge solitons in a genuinely continuous system consisting of a waveguide array with a dynamically varying domain wall between two honeycomb structures exhibiting broken inversion symmetry.…

Optics · Physics 2024-07-16 Sergey K. Ivanov , Yaroslav V. Kartashov

Exotic topological states of matter such as Floquet topological insulator or Floquet Weyl semimetal can be induced by periodic driving. This work proposes a Floquet semimetal with Floquet-band holonomy. That is, the system is gapless, but…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-21 Longwen Zhou , Chong Chen , Jiangbin Gong