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Floquet non-Abelian topological phases emerge in periodically driven systems and exhibit properties that are absent in their Abelian or static counterparts. Dubbed the Floquet non-Abelian topological insulators (FNATIs), they are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-11 Quan Lin , Tianyu Li , Haiping Hu , Wei Yi , Peng Xue

We propose a unified framework, dubbed topological word, for the complete non-Abelian bulk-boundary correspondence in multigap non-Abelian topological insulators. Composed by an ordered sequence of letters, each a non-Abelian charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 Zhenming Zhang , Tianyu Li , Wei Yi

We develop a theory of topological transitions in a Floquet topological insulator, using graphene irradiated by circularly polarized light as a concrete realization. We demonstrate that a hallmark signature of such transitions in a static…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-12 Arijit Kundu , H. A. Fertig , Babak Seradjeh

A two-dimensional periodically driven (Floquet) system with zero winding number in the absence of time-reversal symmetry is usually considered topologically trivial. Here, we study the dynamics of a Gaussian wave packet placed at the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-05-06 Xin-Xin Yang , Kai-Ye Shi , F. Nur Ünal , Wei Zhang

One of the most fascinating properties of topological phases of matter is their robustness to disorder and imperfections. Although several experimental techniques have been developed to probe the geometric properties of engineered…

Nonequilibrium Floquet topological phases due to periodic driving are known to exhibit rich and interesting features with no static analogs. Various known topological invariants usually proposed to characterize static topological systems…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Muhammad Umer , Raditya Weda Bomantara , Jiangbin Gong

We explore the physics of a Chern insulator subjected to a two step Floquet drive. We analytically obtain the phase diagram and show that the system can exhibit different topological phases characterized by presence and chirality of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-12-07 Sthitadhi Roy , G. J. Sreejith

We consider asymmetric and symmetric dimerized two-leg ladders, comprising of four different lattice points per unit cell, illuminated by circularly polarized light. In the asymmetric dimerized ladder case, rungs are not perpendicular to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-08 Milad Jangjan , Mir Vahid Hosseini

Floquet engineering provides a toolbox for the realization of novel quantum phases without static counterparts, while conventionally the realization may rely on the manipulation of complex temporal evolution. Here we propose a systematic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-31 Long Zhang , Xiong-Jun Liu

We study the effect of noise on two-dimensional periodically driven topological phases, focusing on two examples: the anomalous Floquet-Anderson phase and the disordered Floquet-Chern phase. Both phases show an unexpected robustness against…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-04 Balaganchi A. Bhargava , Sanjib Kumar Das , Lukas M. Sieberer , Ion Cosma Fulga

Results are presented for the occupation probabilities and current densities of bulk and edge states of half-filled graphene in a cylindrical geometry, and irradiated by a circularly polarized laser. It is assumed that the system is closed,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-01 Hossein Dehghani , Aditi Mitra

Floquet engineering has the advantage of generating new phases with large topological invariants and many edge states by simple driving protocols. In this work, we propose an approach to obtain Floquet edge states with fourfold degeneracy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-17 Longwen Zhou , Qianqian Du

The bulk-edge correspondence guarantees that the interface between two topologically distinct insulators supports at least one topological edge state that is robust against static perturbations. Here, we address the question of how dynamic…

We explore the impact of commensurate multifrequency driving protocols on the stability of topological edge modes in topological 1D systems of spinless fermions. Using Floquet theory, we show that all the topological phase transitions can…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-01-04 Paolo Molignini

A topological insulator is regarded as an ideal candidate for information storage and high-speed lossless electrical transmission devices due to robust topological protected boundary modes. Previous studies revealed that symmetry exerts an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-06 Ming-Jian Gao , Jun-Hong An

Higher-order topological phases are characterized by protected states localized at the corners or hinges of the system. By applying time-periodic quenches to a two-dimensional lattice with balanced gain and loss, we obtain a rich variety of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-23 Jiaxin Pan , Longwen Zhou

Topological phases characterized by non-Abelian charges have garnered increasing attention recently. Although Floquet (periodic-driving) higher-order topological phases have been explored at the single-particle level, the role of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-22 Yujie Zhou , Changsen Li , Xiumei Wang , Xingping Zhou

Similar to static systems, periodically driven systems can host a variety of topologically non-trivial phases. Unlike the case of static Hamiltonians, the topological indices of bulk Floquet bands may fail to describe the presence and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-03 I. C. Fulga , M. Maksymenko

A recently-proposed class of photonic topological insulators is shown to map onto Chalker-Coddington-type networks, which were originally formulated to study disordered quantum Hall systems. Such network models are equivalent to the Floquet…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-17 Michael Pasek , Y. D. Chong

Topological theories have established a new set of rules that govern the transport properties in a wide variety of wave-mechanical settings. In a marked departure from the established approaches that induce Floquet topological phases by…