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We study the dynamics of two capacitively coupled quantum dots, each coupled to a lead. A Floquet Green's function approach described the system's dynamics, with the electron-electron interactions handled with the fluctuation-exchange…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-25 Thomas D. Honeychurch , Daniel S. Kosov

Graphene irradiated by a circularly polarized laser has been predicted to be a Floquet topological insulator showing a laser-induced quantum Hall effect. A circularly polarized laser also drives the system out of equilibrium resulting in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Hossein Dehghani , Takashi Oka , Aditi Mitra

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…

We bring forward a Green function approach for the prediction of Floquet topological phases in driven superconductor-semiconductor hybrids. Although it is common to treat the superconducting component as a mere Cooper-pair reservoir, it was…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-14 Mohamed Assili , Panagiotis Kotetes

We study the intrinsic superconductivity in a dissipative Floquet electronic system in the presence of attractive interactions. Based on the functional Keldysh theory beyond the mean-field treatment, we find that the system shows a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-07-20 Qinghong Yang , Zhesen Yang , Dong E. Liu

"Floquet engineering" - designing band structures "on-demand" through the application of coherent time-periodic drives - has recently emerged as a powerful tool for creating new topological and anomalous phases of matter. In this…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-09-16 Iliya Esin , Gaurav Kumar Gupta , Erez Berg , Mark S. Rudner , Netanel H. Lindner

Spin-triplet superconductivity is a key platform for topological quantum computing, yet its experimental realization and control in solid-state materials remain a significant challenge. For this purpose, we propose an ultrafast optical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-29 Zecheng Shen , Chendi Xie , Wei-Chih Chen , Yao Wang

We study effects of strong fluctuations on the transport properties of superconductors near the classical critical point. In this regime conductivity is set by the delicate interplay of two competing effects. The first is that strong…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-18 Alex Levchenko

We study how electrons move across a graphene sheet when it encounters two magnetic barriers with a region in between that is continuously driven by laser light. Rather than acting as a static obstacle, this illuminated middle section…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-04 Rachid El Aitouni , Miloud Mekkaoui , Pablo Díaz , David Laroze , Ahmed Jellal

We demonstrate that the electronic structure of a material can be deformed into Floquet pseudo-bands with arbitrarily tailored shapes. We achieve this goal with a novel combination of quantum optimal control theory and Floquet engineering.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-08 Alberto Castro , Umberto de Giovannini , Shusuke A. Sato , Hannes Hübener , Angel Rubio

We investigate tunable superconducting transitions in (111)$\mathrm{LaAlO}_3/\mathrm{KTaO}_3$ field-effect devices. Large increases in conductivity, associated with superconducting fluctuations, are observed far above the transition…

We study the effects of quantum fluctuations on the transport properties of multiband superconductors near a pair-breaking quantum critical point. For this purpose, we consider a minimal model of the quantum phase transition in a system…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-11-28 Maxim Dzero , Maxim Khodas , Alex Levchenko

We consider the intrinsic fluctuation conductivity in metals with multiply sheeted Fermi surfaces approaching a superconducting critical point. Restricting our attention to extreme type-II multicomponent superconductors motivates focusing…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-05 Sondre Duna Lundemo , Asle Sudbø

We study the spin-fluctuation-mediated $s\pm$-wave superconductivity in the bilayer Hubbard model with vertical and diagonal interlayer hoppings. As in the two-leg ladder model with diagonal hoppings, studied previously by the present…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-04-22 Karin Matsumoto , Daisuke Ogura , Kazuhiko Kuroki

Time-periodic driving in the form of coherent radiation provides powerful tool for the manipulation of topological materials or synthetic quantum matter. In this paper we propose a scheme to realize non-Hermitian semimetals exhibiting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-07 Peng He , Ze-Hao Huang

The dynamic engineering of band structures for ultracold atoms in optical lattices represents an innovative approach to understand and explore the fundamental principles of topological matter. In particular, the folded Floquet spectrum…

We propose to employ an optical spectroscopy technique to monitor the superconductivity and properties of superconductors in the fluctuating regime. This technique is operational close to the plasmon resonance frequency of the material, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-26 V. M. Kovalev , I. G. Savenko

The low-energy electronic Hamiltonian for the thinest zigzag carbon nanotube, embedded into a dielectric host, is derived and its phase diagram is discussed. The specific multi-band structure and the microscopic form of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Krzysztof Byczuk

Floquet engineering, the control of quantum systems using periodic driving, is an old concept in condensed matter physics, dating back to ideas such as the inverse Faraday effect. There is a renewed interest in this concept owing to the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-12-20 Takashi Oka , Sota Kitamura

We review recent work on low-frequency Floquet engineering and its application to quantum materials driven by light, emphasizing van der Waals systems hosting Moir\'e superlattices. These non-equilibrium systems combine the twist-angle…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-09 Martin Rodriguez-Vega , Michael Vogl , Gregory A. Fiete