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Periodically driven quantum systems can exhibit subharmonic response, usually characterized through physical observables and often discussed in interacting settings. Here we show that a sharp subharmonic signature already appears in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Rishabh Jha

We introduce a class of topological lasers based on the photonic Floquet topological insulator concept. The proposed system is realized as a truncated array of the lasing helical waveguides, where the pseudo-magnetic field arises due to…

Electronic bands featuring nontrivial bulk topological invariant manifest through robust gapless modes at the boundaries, e.g., edges and surfaces. As such this bulk-boundary correspondence is also operative in driven quantum materials. For…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-26 Tanay Nag , Bitan Roy

Topological phases characterized by non-Abelian charges are beyond the scope of the paradigmatic tenfold way and have gained increasing attention recently. Here we investigate topological insulators with multiple tangled gaps in Floquet…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-16 Tianyu Li , Haiping Hu

Recent experimental advances in Floquet engineering and controlling dissipation in open systems have brought about unprecedented flexibility in tailoring novel phenomena without any static and Hermitian analogues. It can be epitomized by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 Chun-Hui Liu , Haiping Hu , Shu Chen

When a physical system is subjected to a strong external multi-frequency drive, its dynamics can be conveniently represented in the multi-dimensional Floquet lattice. The number of the Floquet lattice dimensions equals the number of {\em…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-25 Ivar Martin , Gil Refael , Bertrand Halperin

We consider the differential conductance of a periodically driven system connected to infinite electrodes. We focus on the situation where the dissipation occurs predominantly in these electrodes. Using analytical arguments and a detailed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-07 Michel Fruchart , Pierre Delplace , Joseph Weston , Xavier Waintal , David Carpentier

Dynamical phases with novel topological properties are known to arise in driven systems of free fermions. In this paper, we obtain a `periodic table' to describe the phases of such time-dependent systems, generalizing the periodic table for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-10-18 Rahul Roy , Fenner Harper

We explore oscillatory behaviour in a family of periodically driven spin chains which are subject to a weak measurement followed by post-selection. We discover a transition to an oscillatory phase as the strength of the measurement is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-23 Vikram Ravindranath , Xiao Chen

Discrete-time quantum walks allow Floquet topological insulator materials to be explored using controllable systems such as ultracold atoms in optical lattices. By numerical simulations, we study the robustness of topologically protected…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-02 Thorsten Groh , Stefan Brakhane , Wolfgang Alt , Dieter Meschede , Janos Asbóth , Andrea Alberti

While periodically-driven phases offer a unique insight into non-equilibrium topology that is richer than its static counterpart, their experimental realization is often hindered by ubiquitous decoherence effects. Recently, we have proposed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-20 Selma Franca , Fabian Hassler , Ion Cosma Fulga

Engineering dissipative dynamics in open quantum systems is under active focus, especially in topological settings where resilient edge modes are expected to exhibit decay rates distinct from the bulk. In this letter, we propose an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Koustav Roy , Shahroze Shahab , Saurabh Basu

The design of time-independent effective Hamiltonians that describe periodically modulated systems, provides a promising approach to realize new forms of matter. This, so-called, Floquet engineering approach is currently limited to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-18 Huanan Li , Boris Shapiro , Tsampikos Kottos

Nonadiabatic Thouless pumping of electrons is studied in the framework of topological Floquet engineering, particularly focused on how changes to chemical moieties can control the emergence of the Floquet topological phase. We employ…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-06-17 Ruiyi Zhou , Yosuke Kanai

Stimulated by the recent progress in engineering topological band structures in cold atomic gases, we study the dynamic topological phenomena for atoms loaded in a periodically driven optical lattice. When the frequency of the periodic…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-05-02 De-Huan Cai , Wei Yi

We study quantum noise in a nonequilibrium, periodically driven, open system attached to static leads. Using a Floquet Green's function formalism we show, both analytically and numerically, that local voltage noise spectra can detect the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 M. Rodriguez-Vega , H. A. Fertig , B. Seradjeh

Topological insulators, which allow edge or interface waves but forbid bulk waves, have revolutionized our scientific cognition of acoustic/elastic systems. Due to their nontrivial topological characteristics, edge (interface)waves are…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-04-28 Weijian Zhou , Weiqiu Chen , Michel Destrade , C. W. Lim

Topological states require the presence of extended bulk states, as usually found in the picture of energy bands and topological states bridging the bulk gaps. But in driven systems this can be circumvented, and one can get topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Esteban A. Rodriguez-Mena , L. E. F. Foa Torres

We discuss several classes of integrable Floquet systems, i.e. systems which do not exhibit chaotic behavior even under a time dependent perturbation. The first class is associated with finite-dimensional Lie groups and infinite-dimensional…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-04-20 Vladimir Gritsev , Anatoli Polkovnikov

Based on the Floquet scattering theory, we analytically investigate the topological spin pumping for an exactly solvable model. Floquet spin Chern numbers are introduced to characterize the periodically time-dependent system. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-13 W. Y. Deng , W. Luo , H. Geng , M. N. Chen , L. Sheng , D. Y. Xing