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Topological phases in quantum and classical systems have been of significant recent interest due to their fascinating physical properties. While a range of different mechanisms to induce topological order have been introduced, a quest for…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-08-07 Mengyao Li , Xiang Ni , Matthew Weiner , Andrea Alù , Alexander B. Khanikaev

The periodic driving of a quantum system can enable new topological phases without analogs in static systems. This provides a route towards preparing non-equilibrium quantum phases rooted into the non-equilibrium nature by periodic driving…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-22 Yufei Zhu , Tao Qin , Xinxin Yang , Gao Xianlong , Zhaoxin Liang

This work investigates dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs) in a one-dimensional Ising model subjected to a periodically modulated transverse field. In contrast to sudden quenches, we demonstrate that a DQPT can be induced in two…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-25 Yuanyuan Cheng , Yuxia Zhang , Tianhui Qiu , Peipei Xin , Bao-Ming Xu

Periodically driven quantum systems can be used to realize quantum pumps, ratchets, artificial gauge fields and novel topological states of matter. Starting from the Keldysh approach, we develop a formalism, the Floquet-Boltzmann equation,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-12-16 Maximilian Genske , Achim Rosch

The discovery of the quantised Hall effect, and its subsequent topological explanation, demonstrated the important role topology can play in determining the properties of quantum systems. This realisation led to the development of…

The recent discoveries of higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs) have shifted the paradigm of topological materials, which was previously limited to topological states at boundaries of materials, to those at boundaries of boundaries,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-17 Weiwei Zhu , Haoran Xue , Jiangbin Gong , Yidong Chong , Baile Zhang

The Floquet Hamiltonian has often been used to describe a time-periodic system. Nevertheless, because the Floquet Hamiltonian depends on a micro-motion parameter, the Floquet Hamiltonian with a fixed micro-motion parameter cannot faithfully…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-04 Peng Xu , Wei Zheng , Hui Zhai

A Floquet systems is a periodically driven quantum system. It can be described by a Floquet operator. If this unitary operator has a gap in the spectrum, then one can define associated topological bulk invariants which can either only…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-10-25 Christian Sadel , Hermann Schulz-Baldes

We have investigated a periodically driven Creutz ladder in presence of two different driving protocols, namely, a sinusoidal drive and a $\delta$-kick imparted to the ladder at regular intervals of time. Specifically, we have studied the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-19 Koustav Roy , Saurabh Basu

We propose a simple approach to realize two-dimensional Floquet topological superfluid by periodically tuning the depth of square optical lattice potentials. We show that the periodic driving can induce topological phase transitions between…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-10-21 Xiaosen Yang

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

Tilted lattice potentials with periodic driving play a crucial role in the study of artificial gauge fields and topological phases with ultracold quantum gases. However, driving-induced heating and the growth of phonon modes restrict their…

Periodic driving can be used to coherently control the properties of a many-body state and to realize new phases which are not accessible in static systems. For example, exposing materials to intense laser pulses enables to provoke…

The quantum system under periodical modulation is the simplest path to understand the quantum non-equilibrium system, because it can be well described by the effective static Floquet Hamiltonian. Under the stroboscopic measurement, the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-07-21 Xiao-Tong Lu , Tao Wang , Ting Li , Chi-Hua Zhou , Mo-Juan Yin , Ye-Bing Wang , Xue-Feng Zhang , Hong Chang

Boundary perturbations are generally irrelevant for bulk properties in the thermodynamic limit, as they are edge-confined and subextensive. We show that this expectation breaks down in boundary-driven systems exhibiting the non-Hermitian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Yu-Min Hu , Yu-Bo Shi , Linhu Li , Gianluca Teza , Ching Hua Lee , Roderich Moessner , Shu Zhang , Sen Mu

We consider the dynamics of an XY spin chain subjected to an external transverse field which is periodically quenched between two values. By deriving an exact expression of the Floquet Hamiltonian for this out-of-equilibrium protocol with…

Periodically driven systems, which can be described by Floquet theory, have been proposed to show characteristic behavior that is distinct from static Hamiltonians. Floquet theory proposes to describe such periodically driven systems in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-17 Jay D. Sau , Takuya Kitagawa , Bertrand I. Halperin

Quantum systems driven by a time-periodic field are a platform of condensed matter physics where effective (quasi)stationary states, termed "Floquet states", can emerge with external-field-dressed quasiparticles during driving. They appear,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-27 Naoto Tsuji

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

Periodically driven quantum systems exhibit many fascinating phenomena absent in equilibrium systems, but their simulation is more challenging than that of static systems. Consequently, quantum simulation of these systems offers greater…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-03 Abhishek Kumar , Karunya Shirali , Nicholas J. Mayhall , Sophia E. Economou , Edwin Barnes