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Periodic driving of quantum dots is analyzed as a basis for developing dynamic switching devices. We study transport through periodically modulated energy levels which are coupled to leads via tunneling coefficients. Utilizing Floquet…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-10 Jan Mathis Giesen , Daniel Weber , Sebastian Eggert

This article reviews theoretical methods for analyzing Floquet engineering (FE) phenomena in open (dissipative) quantum or classical systems, with an emphasis on our recent results. In many theoretical studies for FE in quantum systems,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-28 Masahiro Sato , Tatsuhiko N. Ikeda

In the present paper which is a sequel to [N.B. Volkov and A.M. Iskoldsky The dynamics of vortex structures and states of current: 1;[1]], the dynamics of non-equilibrium phase transitions and states of current in electrophysical systems…

chao-dyn · Physics 2008-02-03 N. B. Volkov , A. M. Iskoldsky

Floquet engineering is a powerful tool that drives materials with periodic light. Traditionally, the light is monochromatic, with amplitude, frequency, and polarization varied. We introduce Floquet engineering via unpolarized light built…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-05-04 V. L. Quito , Rebecca Flint

We study nonequilibrium steady states in a holographic superconductor under time periodic driving by an external rotating electric field. We obtain the dynamical phase diagram. Superconducting phase transition is of first or second order…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-12-19 Takaaki Ishii , Keiju Murata

A primer on the Floquet theory of periodically time-dependent quantum systems is provided, and it is shown how to apply this framework for computing the quasienergy band structure governing the dynamics of ultracold atoms in driven optical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-30 Martin Holthaus

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

Synchronization is a ubiquitous phenomenon in nature and we propose its new perspective in ultrafast dynamics in interacting electron systems. In particular, using graphene irradiated by an intense bi-circular pulse laser as a prototypical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-10-02 Tanay Nag , Robert-Jan Slager , Takuya Higuchi , Takashi Oka

The topological orders in amorphous systems that lack crystalline symmetry have gained considerable attention recently. Here we propose the Floquet amorphous topological matter, among which the topological orders are explored in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-10 Peng He , Jing-Xin Liu , Hong Wu , Z. D. Wang

Floquet systems are periodically driven systems. In this framework, the system Hamiltonian and associated spectra of interest are modified, giving rise to new quantum phases of matter and nonequilibrium dynamics without static counterparts.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-20 Yuechun Jiao , Yu Zhang , Jingxu Bai , Suotang Jia , C. Stuart Adams , Zhengyang Bai , Heng Shen , Jianming Zhao

Floquet engineering or coherent time periodic driving of quantum systems has been successfully used to synthesize Hamiltonians with novel properties. In ultracold atomic systems, this has led to experimental realizations of artificial gauge…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-10-24 S. Subhankar , P. Bienias , P. Titum , T-C. Tsui , Y. Wang , A. V. Gorshkov , S. L. Rolston , J. V. Porto

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

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…

Tuning and stabilising topological states, such as Weyl semimetals, Dirac semimetals, or topological insulators, is emerging as one of the major topics in materials science. Periodic driving of many-body systems offers a platform to design…

We formulate a theory of bulk optical current for a periodically driven system, which accounts for the mixing of external drive and laser field frequencies and, therefore, the broadening of the harmonic spectrum compared to the undriven…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-07 Abhishek Kumar , Yantao Li , Babak Seradjeh

In Floquet engineering, we apply a time-periodic modulation to change the effective behavior of a wave system. In this work, we generalize Floquet engineering to exploit spatial degrees of freedom, expanding the scope of effective behaviors…

Optics · Physics 2025-02-04 Stella T. Schindler , Hanan Herzig Sheinfux

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

In this work we discuss the existence of time-translation symmetry breaking in a kicked infinite-range-interacting clean spin system described by the Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick model. This Floquet time crystal is robust under perturbations of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-07-04 Angelo Russomanno , Fernando Iemini , Marcello Dalmonte , Rosario Fazio

Floquet engineering is an important tool for realizing topologically nontrivial band structures for charge-neutral atoms in optical lattices. However, the preparation of a topological-band-insulator-type state of fermions, with one…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-08-14 Alexander Schnell , Christof Weitenberg , André Eckardt

Under the action of coherent periodic driving a generic quantum system will undergo Floquet heating and continously absorb energy until it reaches a featureless thermal state. The phase-space constraints induced by certain symmetries can,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-02-03 Joseph Tindall , Frank Schlawin , Michael A. Sentef , Dieter Jaksch