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We show that sharply defined topological quantum phase transitions are not limited to states of matter with gapped electronic spectra. Such transitions may also occur between two gapless metallic states both with extended Fermi surfaces.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-29 Xuzhe Ying , Alex Kamenev

We study a dynamical phase transition in optical bistable systems subject to a time-periodic driving field. The phase transition occurs in the structure of limit cycle as a function of the frequency of the driving field. In the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-01-13 Tatsuhiko Shirai , Synge Todo , Seiji Miyashita

Non-Abelian topological insulators are characterized by matrix-valued, non-commuting topological charges with regard to more than one energy gap. Their descriptions go beyond the conventional topological band theory, in which an additive…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-11 Jiaxin Pan , Longwen Zhou

Distinguishing different topologically ordered phases and characterizing phase transitions between them is a difficult task due to the absence of local order parameters. In this paper, we use a combination of analytical and numerical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-08-01 Siddhardh C. Morampudi , Curt von Keyserlingk , Frank Pollmann

Time-periodic (Floquet) topological phases of matter exhibit bulk-edge relationships that are more complex than static topological insulators and superconductors. Finding the edge modes unique to driven systems usually requires numerics.…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-12-28 Indubala I. Satija , Erhai Zhao

Engineering dissipative dynamics in open quantum systems is under active focus, especially in topological settings where resilient edge modes are expected to exhibit decay rates distinct from the bulk. In this letter, we propose an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Koustav Roy , Shahroze Shahab , Saurabh Basu

Out-of-equilibrium phases in many-body systems constitute a new paradigm in quantum matter - they exhibit dynamical properties that may otherwise be forbidden by equilibrium thermodynamics. Among these non-equilibrium phases are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-29 M. Will , T. A. Cochran , E. Rosenberg , B. Jobst , N. M Eassa , P. Roushan , M. Knap , A. Gammon-Smith , F. Pollmann

Floquet topological phases emerge when systems are periodically driven out-of-equilibrium. They gained attention due to their external control, which allows to simulate a wide variety of static systems by just tuning the external field in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-20 Álvaro Gómez-León

Spontaneous time-reversal symmetry breaking in superconductors with competing non-degenerate pairing channels is an exotic quantum phase transition that could give rise to robust topological superconductivity and unusual magnetism. It is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-03 Yin Shi

We study transitions between distinct phases of one-dimensional periodically driven (Floquet) systems. We argue that these are generically controlled by infinite-randomness fixed points of a strong-disorder renormalization group procedure.…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-09-25 William Berdanier , Michael Kolodrubetz , S. A. Parameswaran , Romain Vasseur

We analyze electron dynamics and topological properties of open double quantum dots (DQDs) driven by circularly polarized ac-magnetic fields. In particular we focus on the system symmetries which can be tuned by the ac-magnetic field.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-25 Álvaro Gómez-León , Gloria Platero

Floquet engineering, modulating quantum systems in a time periodic way, lies at the central part for realizing novel topological dynamical states. Thanks to the Floquet engineering, various new realms on experimentally simulating…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-13 Huan-Yu Wang , Xiao-Ming Zhao , Lin Zhuang , Wu-Ming Liu

We introduce $\mathbb Z_2$-valued bulk invariants for symmetry-protected topological phases in $2+1$ dimensional driven quantum systems. These invariants adapt the $W_3$-invariant, expressed as a sum over degeneracy points of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-24 Bastian Höckendorf , Andreas Alvermann , Holger Fehske

Periodic driving provides a platform to dynamically tailor quantum states of matter, yet its impact on symmetry-protected topological phases remains incompletely understood. Here, we demonstrate that periodic driving enables the realization…

We argue that symmetry-broken phases proximate in phase space to symmetry-protected topological phases can exhibit dynamical signatures of topological physics. This dynamical, symmetry-protected "topological" regime is characterized by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-06-26 Daniel E. Parker , Romain Vasseur , Thomas Scaffidi

Topological theories have established a new set of rules that govern the transport properties in a wide variety of wave-mechanical settings. In a marked departure from the established approaches that induce Floquet topological phases by…

Exceptional degeneracies and generically complex spectra of non-Hermitian systems are at the heart of numerous phenomena absent in the Hermitian realm. Recently, it was suggested that Floquet dissipative coupling in the space-time domain…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-01 Zimo Zhang , Fengbo Zhang , Zhongxiao Xu , Ying Hu , Han Bao , Heng Shen

We investigate transitions between topologically ordered phases in two spatial dimensions induced by the condensation of a bosonic quasiparticle. To this end, we formulate an extension of the theory of symmetry breaking phase transitions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. A. Bais , J. K. Slingerland

We study a periodically driven qubit coupled to a quantized cavity mode. Despite its apparent simplicity, this system supports a rich variety of exotic phenomena, such as topological frequency conversion as recently discovered in [Martin et…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-07 Frederik Nathan , Gil Refael , Mark S. Rudner , Ivar Martin

Spurred by recent development of fracton topological phases, unusual topological phases possessing fractionalized quasi-particles with mobility constraints, the concept of symmetries has been renewed. In particular, in accordance with the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-05-24 Hiromi Ebisu , Masazumi Honda , Taiichi Nakanishi