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We study the scattering of an electron from a one dimensional inverted Gaussian atomic potential in the presence of strong time periodic electric fields. Using Floquet theory, we construct the Floquet Scattering matrix in the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Agapi Emmanouilidou , L. E. Reichl

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

We study topological phases in one-dimensional open Floquet systems driven by chiral symmetric nonunitary time evolution. We derive a procedure to calculate topological numbers from nonunitary time-evolution operators with chiral symmetry.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-10 Ken Mochizuki , Dakyeong Kim , Norio Kawakami , Hideaki Obuse

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

Driven Floquet systems can realize topological phases with no static counterparts. These so-called anomalous Floquet topology breaks the bulk-boundary correspondence based on the Chern number. The number of edge modes in each band gap is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Luca Asteria , Klaus Sengstock , André Eckardt , Christof Weitenberg

We demonstrate that the dynamics of kicked spin chains possess a remarkable duality property. The trace of the unitary evolution operator for $N$ spins at time $T$ is related to one of a non-unitary evolution operator for $T$ spins at time…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2016-09-21 M. Akila , D. Waltner , B. Gutkin , T. Guhr

We show how Floquet Majorana fermions may be experimentally realized by periodic driving of a solid-state platform. The system comprises a planar Josephson junction made of a proximitized heterostructure containing a 2D electron gas (2DEG)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-13 Dillon T. Liu , Javad Shabani , Aditi Mitra

Having the potential for performing quantum computation, topological superconductors have been generalized to the second-order case. The hybridization of different orders of topological superconductors is attractive because it facilitates…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-06-19 Hong Wu , Jun-Hong An

Floquet Majorana fermions are steady states of equal superposition of electrons and holes in a periodically driven superconductor. We study the experimental signatures of Floquet Majorana fermions in transport measurements and show, both…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-27 Arijit Kundu , Babak Seradjeh

Previously, we demonstrated that the dynamics of kicked spin chains possess a remarkable duality property. The trace of the unitary evolution operator for $N$ spins at time $T$ is related to one of a non-unitary evolution operator for $T$…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2018-02-07 M. Akila , D. Waltner , B. Gutkin , T. Guhr

Periodically driven, or Floquet, disordered quantum systems have generated many unexpected discoveries of late, such as the anomalous Floquet Anderson insulator and the discrete time crystal. Here, we report the emergence of an entire band…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-05-22 Sthitadhi Roy , Ivan M. Khaymovich , Arnab Das , Roderich Moessner

We explore topological edge states in periodically driven nonlinear systems. Based on a self-consistency method adjusted to periodically driven systems, we obtain stationary states associated with topological phases unique to Floquet…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-01-10 Ken Mochizuki , Kaoru Mizuta , Norio Kawakami

The ferromagnetic state of an Ising chain can represent a two-fold degenerate subspace or equivalently a logical qubit which is protected from excitations by an energy gap. We study a a braiding-like exchange operation through the movement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 Bassel Heiba Elfeky , Matthieu C. Dartiailh , S. M. Farzaneh , Javad Shabani

We consider nontrivial topological phases in Floquet systems using unitary loops and stroboscopic evolutions under a static Floquet Hamiltonian $H_F$ in the presence of dynamical space-time symmetries $G$. While the latter has been subject…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-27 Ilyoun Na , Jack Kemp , Robert-Jan Slager , Yang Peng

When a physical system is subjected to a strong external multi-frequency drive, its dynamics can be conveniently represented in the multi-dimensional Floquet lattice. The number of the Floquet lattice dimensions equals the number of {\em…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-25 Ivar Martin , Gil Refael , Bertrand Halperin

Periodic driving enables realization of topological phases without static counterparts. We experimentally realize and detect a one-dimensional anomalous Floquet topological phase in an optical lattice, using multi-frequency control to…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-04-08 Pengju Zhao , Yudong Wei , Zhongshu Hu , Shengjie Jin , Xuzong Chen , Xiong-jun Liu

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

Nonadiabatic Thouless pumping of electrons is studied in the framework of topological Floquet engineering, particularly focused on how changes to chemical moieties can control the emergence of the Floquet topological phase. We employ…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-06-17 Ruiyi Zhou , Yosuke Kanai

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 experimentally observe a coexisting pair of topological anomalous Floquet interface states in a (1+1)-dimensional Discrete Photon Walk. We explicitly verify the robustness of these states against local static perturbations respecting…

Optics · Physics 2020-11-18 Arstan Bisianov , Andre Muniz , Ulf Peschel , Oleg Egorov