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We theoretically investigated the topological-protected edge states (TESs) in an anisotropic honeycomb lattice with mirror and chiral symmetries, characterized by an alternative topological invariant - fractional polarization (FP), rather…

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We theoretically and numerically investigate Chern vector insulators and topological surface states in a three-dimensional lattice, based on phase-delayed temporal-periodic interactions within the tight-binding model. These Floquet…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-10 Fangyuan Ma , Junrong Feng , Feng Li , Ying Wu , Di Zhou

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

Using elementary graph theory, we show the existence of interface chiral modes in random oriented scattering networks and discuss their topological nature. For particular regular networks (e.g. L-lattice, Kagome and triangular networks), an…

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We present a method for simulating any non-interacting and time-periodic tight-binding Hamiltonian in Fourier space using electric circuits made of inductors and capacitors. We first map the time-periodic Hamiltonian to a Floquet…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-06 S. Sajad Dabiri , H. Cheraghchi

Topological edge states form at the edges of periodic materials with specific degeneracies in their modal spectra, such as Dirac points, under the action of effects breaking certain symmetries of the system. In particular, in Floquet…

Realizing topological insulators is of great current interest because of their remarkable properties and possible future applications. There are recent proposals, based on Floquet analyses, that one can generate topologically nontrivial…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-08-02 Luca D'Alessio , Marcos Rigol

Non-Hermitian topological phases in static and periodically driven systems have attracted great attention in recent years. Finding dynamical probes for these exotic phases would be of great importance in the detection and application of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-17 Longwen Zhou

In two dimensions, interacting Floquet topological phases may arise even in the absence of any protecting symmetry, exhibiting chiral edge transport that is robust to local perturbations. We explore a similar class of Floquet topological…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-07-25 Dominic Reiss , Fenner Harper , Rahul Roy

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

The quantum anomalies at the edges correspond to the topological phases in the system, and the chiral edge states can reflect bulk bands' topological properties. In this paper, we demonstrate a simulation of Floquet system's chiral edge…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-08-11 Zhongcheng Yu , Jinyuan Tian , Fansu Wei , Xuzong Chen , Xiaoji Zhou

In the presence of a circularly polarized mid-infrared radiation graphene develops dynamical band gaps in its quasi-energy band structure and becomes a Floquet insulator. Here we analyze how topologically protected edge states arise inside…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-23 Gonzalo Usaj , P. M. Perez-Piskunow , L. E. F. Foa Torres , C. A. Balseiro

The unique electronic properties of the surface electrons in a topological insulator are protected by time-reversal symmetry. Circularly polarized light naturally breaks time-reversal symmetry, which may lead to an exotic surface quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-29 Y. H. Wang , H. Steinberg , P. Jarillo-Herrero , N. Gedik

Graphene provides a canonical setting for Floquet band engineering, where circularly polarized light can dynamically open topological gaps at Dirac points and generate nonequilibrium Hall responses. Here we show that uniaxial strain and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Yu-Wen Xu , Xiaolin Wan , Zi-Ming Wang , Rui Wang , Dong-Hui Xu

With the aim to reveal universal features of hadronic matter and correlated Dirac insulators in strong AC-electric fields, we study the $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetric QCD with a finite quark mass driven by a rotating electric field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-01 Shunichiro Kinoshita , Keiju Murata , Takashi Oka

Recently, non-reciprocal two-dimensional unitary scattering networks have gained considerable interest due to the possibility of obtaining robust edge wave propagation in the anomalous Floquet phase. Conversely, zero-dimensional topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-07 Haoye Qin , Zhe Zhang , Qiaolu Chen , Romain Fleury

The field of topological photonics studies unique and robust photonic systems that are immune to defects and disorders due to the protection of their underlying topological phases. Mostly implemented in static systems, the studied…

Optics · Physics 2023-04-20 Jicheng Jin , Li He , Jian Lu , Lin Chang , Chen Shang , John E. Bowers , Eugene J. Mele , Bo Zhen

Time-periodic (Floquet) drive is a powerful method to engineer quantum phases of matter, including fundamentally non-equilibrium states that are impossible in static Hamiltonian systems. One characteristic example is the anomalous Floquet…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-01-12 Christopher I. Timms , Lukas M. Sieberer , Michael H. Kolodrubetz

This paper analyzes Floquet topological insulators resulting from the time-harmonic irradiation of electromagnetic waves on two dimensional materials such as graphene. We analyze the bulk and edge topologies of approximations to the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-01-19 Guillaume Bal , Daniel Massatt

Floquet topological insulators are topological phases of matter generated by the application of time-periodic perturbations on otherwise conventional insulators. We demonstrate that spatial variations in the time-periodic potential lead to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-04-02 Yaniv Tenenbaum Katan , Daniel Podolsky