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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…

In two-dimensional anomalous Floquet insulators, non-Hermitian boundary state engineering can be used to completely separate chiral boundary states from bulk bands in the quasienergy spectrum. The topological properties of such spectrally…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-07 Bastian Höckendorf , Andreas Alvermann , Holger Fehske

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

Altermagnets are rapidly emerging as a highly promising platform for spintronics, yet dynamically controlling their spin responses remains a fundamental challenge. In this work, we demonstrate that introducing periodic optical driving and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-18 Kai Chen , Jie Zhu

The interplay between Floquet driving and non-Hermitian gain/loss could give rise to intriguing phenomena including topological funneling of light, edge-state delocalization, anomalous topological transitions and Floquet non-Hermitian skin…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Weiwei Zhu , Longwen Zhou , Linhu Li , Jiangbin Gong

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

Exotic topological states of matter such as Floquet topological insulator or Floquet Weyl semimetal can be induced by periodic driving. This work proposes a Floquet semimetal with Floquet-band holonomy. That is, the system is gapless, but…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-21 Longwen Zhou , Chong Chen , Jiangbin Gong

Floquet engineering is one of the most vigorous fields in periodically driven (Floquet) systems, with which we can control phases of matter usually by high-frequency drives. In this paper, with Floquet engineering by a combination of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-27 Kaoru Mizuta , Kazuaki Takasan , Norio Kawakami

We investigate the rich non-equilibrium physics arising in periodically driven open quantum systems, specifically those realized within microcavity resonators, whose dynamics are governed by a non-Hermitian Hamiltonian hosting Floquet…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-20 Gaurab Kumar Dash , Subhendu Kumar Patra , Diptiman Sen , Manisha Thakurathi

Non-Hermitian systems exhibit two distinct topological classifications based on their gap structure: line-gap and point-gap topologies. Although point-gap topology is intrinsic to non-Hermitian systems, its systematic construction remains a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-10-14 Xiang Ji , Hao Geng , Naeem Akhtar , Xiaosen Yang

We demonstrate dynamical control of the effective spin-spin interaction, dominated by Fermi-contact interaction, in a hybrid spin system via parametric modulation. We show that, in an alkali-noble-gas comagnetometer, periodic modulation of…

We show that time-reflection symmetry in periodically driven (Floquet) quantum systems enables an inherently nonequilibrium phenomenon structurally similar to quantum-mechanical sypersymmetry. In particular, we find Floquet analogues of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-05-30 Thomas Iadecola , Timothy H. Hsieh

Higher-order topological phases are characterized by protected states localized at the corners or hinges of the system. By applying time-periodic quenches to a two-dimensional lattice with balanced gain and loss, we obtain a rich variety of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-23 Jiaxin Pan , Longwen Zhou

Although quantum simulation can give insight into elusive or intractable physical phenomena, many quantum simulators are unavoidably limited in the models they mimic. Such is also the case for atom arrays interacting via Rydberg states - a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-06-13 Naveen Nishad , Anna Keselman , Thierry Lahaye , Antoine Browaeys , Shai Tsesses

Nodal-line semimetals are commonly believed to exist in $\mathcal{PT}$ symmetric or mirror-rotation symmetric systems. Here, we find a flux-induced parameter-dimensional second-order nodal-line semimetal (SONLS) in a two-dimensional system…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-11 Ming-Jian Gao , Jun-Hong An

Time-periodic light field has emerged as a control knob for manipulating quantum states in solid-state materials, cold atoms and photonic systems via hybridization with photon-dressed Floquet states in the strong coupling limit, dubbed as…

Non-equilibrium steady states are created when a periodically driven quantum system is also incoherently interacting with an environment -- as it is the case in most realistic situations. The notion of Floquet engineering refers to the…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-07-12 Alberto Castro , Shunsuke A. Sato

For first-order topological semimetals, non-Hermitian perturbations can drive the Weyl nodes into Weyl exceptional rings having multiple topological structures and no Hermitian counterparts. Recently, it was discovered that higher-order…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-11 Tao Liu , James Jun He , Zhongmin Yang , Franco Nori

Floquet engineering, i.e. driving the system with periodic Hamiltonians, not only provides great flexibility in analog quantum simulation, but also supports phase structures of great richness. It has been proposed that Floquet systems can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-03 Huikai Xu , Jingning Zhang , Jiaxiu Han , Zhiyuan Li , Guangming Xue , Weiyang Liu , Yirong Jin , Haifeng Yu

Recently the creation of novel topological states of matter by a periodic driving field has attracted great attention. To motivate further experimental and theoretical studies, we investigate interesting aspects of Floquet bands and…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-19 Longwen Zhou , Hailong Wang , Derek Y. H. Ho , Jiangbin Gong