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Floquet modulations often yield effective Hamiltonians not easily accessible in traditional time-dependent systems, which brings opportunities for exploring novel physics of quantum dynamics. We investigate a Floquet system exhibiting…

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A defining quantity of a physical system is its energy which is represented by the Hamiltonian. In closed quantum mechanical or/and coherent wave-based systems the Hamiltonian is introduced as a Hermitian operator which ensures real energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-05 Jamal Berakdar , Xi-guang Wang

Floquet insulators are periodically driven quantum systems that can host novel topological phases as a function of the drive parameters. These new phases exhibit features reminiscent of fermion doubling in discrete-time lattice fermion…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-12 Thomas Iadecola , Srimoyee Sen , Lars Sivertsen

We consider Mott insulators driven by periodic coherent laser radiation, using both single orbital and multi-orbital models, noting that the latter is of more interest in solid state systems. We derive general expressions for the resulting…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-05-15 Kasra Hejazi , Jianpeng Liu , Leon Balents

Periodic driving can induce the emergence of topological pi modes, and their superposition with zero modes leads to two-period dynamics. Introducing long-range couplings enables the realization of larger topological winding numbers, which…

Optics · Physics 2025-08-05 Changsen Li , Yujie Zhou , Xiumei Wang , Xingping Zhou

We analyze the topological and dynamical properties of a system formed by two chains of identical emitters coupled to a waveguide, whose guided modes induce all-to-all excitation hopping. We find that, in the single excitation limit, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-21 Ciaran McDonnell , Beatriz Olmos

The non-trivial topological features in the energy band of non-Hermitian systems provide promising pathways to achieve robust physical behaviors in classical or quantum open systems. A key topological feature, unique to non-Hermitian…

The design of time-independent effective Hamiltonians that describe periodically modulated systems, provides a promising approach to realize new forms of matter. This, so-called, Floquet engineering approach is currently limited to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-18 Huanan Li , Boris Shapiro , Tsampikos Kottos

We propose a scheme to deal with certain time-dependent non-Hermitian Hamiltonian operators $H(t)$ that generate a real phase in their time-evolution. This involves the use of invariant operators $I_{PH}(t)$ that are pseudo-Hermitian with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-19 Boubakeur Khantoul , A. Bounames , M. Maamache

The implementation of time-evolution operators $U(t)$, called Hamiltonian simulation, is one of the most promising usage of quantum computers. For time-independent Hamiltonians, qubitization has recently established efficient realization of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-29 Kaoru Mizuta , Keisuke Fujii

Topological insulators have been studied intensively over the last decades. Earlier research focused on Hermitian Hamiltonians, but recently, peculiar and interesting properties were found by introducing non-Hermiticity. In this work, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-05-29 Chao Chen Ye , W. L. Vleeshouwers , S. Heatley , V. Gritsev , C. Morais Smith

Time-periodic modulation of a static system is a powerful method for realizing robust unidirectional topological states. So far, all such realizations have been based on interactions among $s$ orbitals, without incorporating inter-orbital…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-15 Gayathry Rajeevan , Sebabrata Mukherjee

Recent theoretical work on time-periodically kicked Hofstadter model found robust counter-propagating edge modes. It remains unclear how ubiquitously such anomalous modes can appear, and what dictates their robustness against disorder. Here…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-11-13 Zhenyu Zhou , Indubala I. Satija , Erhai Zhao

The time evolution of a system with a time-dependent non-Hermitian Hamiltonian is in general unstable with exponential growth or decay. A periodic driving field may stabilize the dynamics because the eigenphases of the associated Floquet…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Jiangbin Gong , Qing-hai Wang

We consider a quantum system periodically driven with a strength which varies slowly on the scale of the driving period. The analysis is based on a general formulation of the Floquet theory relying on the extended Hilbert space. It is shown…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-02-22 Viktor Novičenko , Egidijus Anisimovas , Gediminas Juzeliūnas

Non-radiative wireless power transfer (WPT) technology has made considerable progress with the application of the parity-time (PT) symmetry concept. In this letter, we extend the standard second-order PT-symmetric Hamiltonian to high-order…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-03-01 Xianglin Hao , Ke Yin , Jianlong Zou , Ruibin Wang , Yuangen Huang , Xikui Ma , Tianyu Dong

Floquet systems are governed by periodic, time-dependent, Hamiltonians. Prima facie they should absorb energy from the external drives involved in modulating their couplings and heat up to infinite temperature. However this unhappy state of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-10-05 Fenner Harper , Rahul Roy , Mark S. Rudner , S. L. Sondhi

Periodic driving of a quantum system can enable new topological phases with no analog in static systems. In this paper we systematically classify one-dimensional topological and symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phases in interacting…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-05-26 Andrew C. Potter , Takahiro Morimoto , Ashvin Vishwanath

Many-mode Floquet theory [T.-S. Ho, S.-I. Chu, and J. V. Tietz, Chem. Phys. Lett., v. 96, 464 (1983)] is a technique for solving the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation in the special case of multiple periodic fields, but its limitations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-01 A. N. Poertner , J. D. D. Martin

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