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Floquet engineering provides a powerful and flexible method for modifying the band structures of quantum materials. While circularly polarized light has been shown to convert curved nodal lines in three-dimensional semimetals into Weyl…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-27 Dongling Liu , Zheng-Yang Zhuang , Zhongbo Yan

We investigate Floquet engineering of three-dimensional Dirac fermions driven by propagating waves, identifying distinct quantum states and phase transitions in the time-like, light-like, and space-like regimes. Notably, we uncover a novel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-12 Takashi Oka

Periodically driven many-body systems generally heat towards a featureless 'infinite-temperature' state. As an alternative to uniform heating in a clean system, here we establish a Floquet superheating regime, where fast heating nucleates…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-11-18 Yang Hou , Andrea Pizzi , Huike Jin , Johannes Knolle , Roderich Moessner , Hongzheng Zhao

Floquet engineering has emerged as a powerful approach for dynamically tailoring the electronic structures of quantum materials through time-periodic light fields generated by ultrafast laser pulses. The light fields can transiently dress…

In this paper, we discuss the effect of a periodically driving circularly polarized laser beam in the high frequency limit, on the band structure and thermal transport properties of type-I and type-II Weyl semimetals (WSMs). We develop the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Anirudha Menon , Debashree Chowdhury , Banasri Basu

The title material has a quasi-one-dimensional electronic structure and is of considerable interest because it has a metallic phase with properties different from a simple Fermi liquid, a poorly understood "insulating" phase, and a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-04 Jaime Merino , Ross H. McKenzie

In a recent paper [Phys. Rev. Lett. 112 156801 (2014)], Grushin et al. studied a Fermi-Hubbard-model for spinful electrons on a honeycomb lattice coupled to an external polarized electric field. By computing the Floquet Hamiltonian…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-12-12 Luca D'Alessio

We study the superconducting order parameter fluctuations near the phase transition into the Larkin-Ovchinnikov-Fulde-Ferrell state in the clean limit at zero temperature. In contrast to the usual normal metal-to-uniform superconductor…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 K. V. Samokhin , M. S. Mar'enko

Periodically driven Floquet quantum systems provide a promising platform to investigate novel physics out of equilibrium. Unfortunately, the drive generically heats up the system to a featureless infinite temperature state. For large…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-02 Pai Peng , Chao Yin , Xiaoyang Huang , Chandrasekhar Ramanathan , Paola Cappellaro

Berg, Metlitski and Sachdev, Science 338, 1606 (2012), have shown that the exchange of hidden spin fluctuations by conduction electrons with two orbitals can result in high-temperature superconductivity in copper-oxide materials. We…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-05-28 J. P. Rodriguez

We introduce a mechanism for light-induced Floquet engineering of the Fermi surface to dynamically tip the balance between competing instabilities in correlated condensed matter systems in the vicinity of a van-Hove singularity. We first…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-08-14 Dante M. Kennes , Martin Claassen , Michael A. Sentef , Christoph Karrasch

Intertwined orders exist ubiquitously in strongly correlated electronic systems and lead to intriguing phenomena in quantum materials. In this paper, we explore the unique opportunity of manipulating intertwined orders through entangling…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-11-24 Jiajun Li , Martin Eckstein

Periodic laser driving, known as Floquet engineering, is a powerful tool to manipulate the properties of quantum materials. Using circularly polarized light, artificial magnetic fields, called Berry curvature, can be created in the…

Floquet engineering offers a powerful route to enhance emission in time-modulated media. Here, we investigate the influence of time-modulated permittivity in silicon carbide on its intensity spectrum. We consider both the nonequilibrium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-27 Yuhua Ren , Hui Pan , Jian-Sheng Wang

Light offers a route to engineer new phases of matter far from equilibrium, including transient states suggestive of superconducting, charge-ordered, and excitonic ordering behavior. Yet it remains unclear how optical excitation can…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-09 Mattia Moroder , Sebastian Paeckel , Matteo Mitrano , John Sous

We study the effect of a strong electric field on the fluctuation conductivity within the time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau theory for the case of arbitrary dimension. Our results are based on the analytical derivation of the velocity…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 Todor Mishonov , Anna Posazhennikova , Joseph Indekeu

We discuss fluctuating order in a quantum disordered phase proximate to a quantum critical point, with particular emphasis on fluctuating stripe order. Optimal strategies for extracting information concerning such local order from…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 S. A. Kivelson , E. Fradkin , V. Oganesyan , I. P. Bindloss , J. M. Tranquada , A. Kapitulnik , C. Howald

Coherent driving has established itself as a powerful tool for guiding a many-body quantum system into a desirable, coherent non-equilibrium state. A thermodynamically large system will, however, almost always saturate to a featureless…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-12-29 J. Tindall , F. Schlawin , M. Sentef , D. Jaksch

Systems which rapidly evolve through symmetry-breaking transitions on timescales comparable to the fluctuation timescale of the single-particle excitations may behave very differently than under controlled near-ergodic conditions. A…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-07-06 I. Madan , P. Kusar , V. V. Baranov , M. Lu-Dac , T. Mertelj , V. V. Kabanov , D. Mihailovic

We demonstrate how the properties of light-induced electronic Floquet states in solids impact natural physical observables, such as transport properties, by capturing the environmental influence on the electrons. We include the environment…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-01 M. Nuske , L. Broers , B. Schulte , G. Jotzu , S. A. Sato , A. Cavalleri , A. Rubio , J. W. McIver , L. Mathey