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The co-existence of spatial and non-spatial symmetries together with appropriate commutation/anticommutation relations between them can give rise to static higher-order topological phases, which host gapless boundary modes of co-dimension…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Swati Chaudhary , Arbel Haim , Yang Peng , Gil Refael

Using two-frequency driving in two dimensions opens up new possibilites for Floquet engineering, which range from controlling specific symmetries to tuning the properties of resonant gaps. In this work, we study two-band lattice models…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-04-19 Yixiao Wang , Anne-Sophie Walter , Gregor Jotzu , Konrad Viebahn

In this work, we reported a ubiquitous presence of topological Floquet time crystal (TFTC) in one-dimensional periodically-driven systems. The rigidity and realization of spontaneous discrete time-translation symmetry (DTS) breaking in our…

Optics · Physics 2020-11-25 Yiming Pan , Bing Wang

Periodic driving has the longstanding reputation for generating exotic phases of matter with no static counterparts. This work explores the interplay among periodic driving, interaction effects, and $\mathbb{Z}_2$ symmetry that leads to the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-11-17 Kelvin Koor , Raditya Weda Bomantara , Leong Chuan Kwek

We consider a Floquet triple-layer setup composed of a two-dimensional electron gas with spin-orbit interactions, proximity coupled to an s-wave superconductor and to a ferromagnet driven at resonance. The ferromagnetic layer generates a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-06 Kirill Plekhanov , Manisha Thakurathi , Daniel Loss , Jelena Klinovaja

Time-periodic (Floquet) drive can give rise to novel symmetry breaking and topological phases of matter. Recently, we showed that a quintessential Floquet topological phase known as the anomalous Floquet-Anderson insulator is stable to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-14 Peng Peng Zheng , Christopher I. Timms , Michael H. Kolodrubetz

We propose a Floquet-engineered framework for the coherent control of the light-matter interaction in a two-level system (TLS) located in a time-modulated cavity. Strictly phase-preserving operation of the TLS-cavity interaction is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 J. W. Yu , X. Q. Zhou , Z. B. Ni , X. T. Cheng , Y. Zhao , H. H. Zhu , C. H. Li , F. Liu , C. Y. Jin

Higher-order topological insulators have attracted significant interest in both static single-particle and many-body lattice systems. While periodically driven (Floquet) higher-order topological phases have been explored at the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-15 Chun-Ping Su , Zhao-Fan Cai , Tao Liu

Recently, Floquet systems have attracted a great deal of interest as they offer unprecedented ability to engineer topological states through the tuning of an external time-periodic drive. Consequentially, seeking new driving protocols that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-05 Sam Olin , Wei-Cheng Lee

Recent progresses on Floquet topological phases have shed new light on time-dependant quantum systems, among which one-dimensional (1D) Floquet systems have been under extensive theoretical research. However, an unambiguous experimental…

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

For spinful systems with spin 1/2, it is generally believed that P and T invariant strong and second-order topologies exist in four band and eight band system, respectively. Here, by using periodic driving, we find it is possible to have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-14 Hong Wu , Yu-Chen Dong , Hui Liu

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

Floquet time crystal, which breaks discrete time-translation symmetry, is an intriguing phenomenon in non-equilibrium systems. It is crucial to understand the rigidity and robustness of discrete time crystal (DTC) phases in a many-body…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-05-16 Peng Xu , Tian-Shu Deng

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

With significant advances in classifying and cataloguing topological matter, the focus of topological physics has shifted towards quantum control, particularly the creation and manipulation of topological phases of matter. Floquet…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-09-10 Fangyang Zhan , Rui Chen , Zhen Ning , Da-Shuai Ma , Ziming Wang , Dong-Hui Xu , Rui Wang

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

Periodic driving enables realization of topological phases without static counterparts. We experimentally realize and detect a one-dimensional anomalous Floquet topological phase in an optical lattice, using multi-frequency control to…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-04-08 Pengju Zhao , Yudong Wei , Zhongshu Hu , Shengjie Jin , Xuzong Chen , Xiong-jun Liu

We consider the ratchet dynamics in a $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric Floquet quantum system with symmetric temporal (harmonic) driving. In the exact $\mathcal{PT}$ phase, for a finite number of resonant frequencies, we show that the long-lasting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-27 Zhiqiang Li , Xiaoxiao Hu , Jinpeng Xiao , Yajiang Chen , Xiaobing Luo

In this paper, we study the existence of Floquet topological insulators for PT symmetric non-Hermitian Hamiltonians. We consider an array of waveguide in 1D with periodically changing non-Hermitian potential and predict the existence of…

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