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The inelastic scattering and conversion process between photons and phonons by laser-driven quantum dots is analyzed for a honeycomb array of optomechanical cells. Using Floquet theory for an effective two-level system, we solve the related…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-10 C. Wurl , H. Fehske

We propose Floquet chiral topological superconducting systems hosting Floquet Majorana fermions, which consist of hexagonal lattices in proximity to superconductors with shining circularly polarized light. Specially for bilayer graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-20 Zi-bo Wang , Hua Jiang , Haiwen Liu , X. C. Xie

In this work, we reported a ubiquitous presence of topological Floquet time crystal (TFTC) in one-dimensional periodically-driven systems. The rigidity and realization of spontaneous discrete time-translation symmetry (DTS) breaking in our…

Optics · Physics 2020-11-25 Yiming Pan , Bing Wang

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…

We investigate the out-of-equilibrium properties of a system of interacting bosons in a ring lattice. We present a Floquet driving that induces clockwise (counterclockwise) circulation of the particles among the odd (even) sites of the ring…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-10-16 Andrea Pizzi , Johannes Knolle , Andreas Nunnenkamp

Functionality of many nonlinear and quantum optical devices relies on the effect of optical bistability. Using the microcavity exciton-polaritons in a honeycomb arrangement of microcavity pillars, we report the resonance response and…

Optics · Physics 2018-02-07 Yaroslav V. Kartashov , Dmitry V. Skryabin

We study the effects of photoirradiation with circularly polarized light on the Dirac half-metal state induced by the ferrimagnetic order in a triangular Kondo-lattice model. Our analysis based on the Floquet theory reveals that two types…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-08-12 Rintaro Eto , Masahito Mochizuki

A topological insulator is regarded as an ideal candidate for information storage and high-speed lossless electrical transmission devices due to robust topological protected boundary modes. Previous studies revealed that symmetry exerts an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-06 Ming-Jian Gao , Jun-Hong An

We study spatial optical solitons in a one-dimensional nonlinear photonic crystal created by an array of thin-film nonlinear waveguides, the so-called Dirac-comb nonlinear lattice. We analyze modulational instability of the extended…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrey A. Sukhorukov , Yuri S. Kivshar

Time-periodic (Floquet) drive is a powerful method to engineer quantum phases of matter, including fundamentally non-equilibrium states that are impossible in static Hamiltonian systems. One characteristic example is the anomalous Floquet…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-01-12 Christopher I. Timms , Lukas M. Sieberer , Michael H. Kolodrubetz

Many physical systems display quantized energy states. In optics, interacting resonant cavities show a transmission spectrum with split eigenfrequencies, similar to the split energy levels that result from interacting states in bonded…

Periodically-driven systems engender a rich competition between the time scales of the drives and those of the system, leading to a limited ability to describe the system in full. We present a framework for the description of interacting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-25 Kilian Seibold , Orjan Ameye , Oded Zilberberg

High-order topological phases, such as those with nontrivial quadrupole moments, protect edge states that are themselves topological insulators in lower dimensions. So far, most quadrupole phases of light are explored in linear optical…

Optics · Physics 2022-08-17 Jicheng Jin , Li He , Jian Lu , Eugene J. Mele , Bo Zhen

Topological properties of physical systems can lead to robust behaviors that are insensitive to microscopic details. Such topologically robust phenomena are not limited to static systems but can also appear in driven quantum systems. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-12-14 Takuya Kitagawa , Erez Berg , Mark Rudner , Eugene Demler

In a recent paper [Phys. Rev. Lett. 112 156801 (2014)], Grushin et al. studied a Fermi-Hubbard-model for spinful electrons on a honeycomb lattice coupled to an external polarized electric field. By computing the Floquet Hamiltonian…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-12-12 Luca D'Alessio

We propose to synthesize tunable periodic gauge fields via Floquet engineering cold alkaline-earth atoms in one-dimensional optical lattice. The artificial magnetic flux is designed to emerge during the combined process of Floquet photon…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-04-22 Wei Wang , Zheng Zhang , Gui-Xin Tang , Tao Wang

The dynamics of qubits coupled to a harmonic oscillator with time-periodic coupling is investigated in the framework of Floquet theory. This system can be used to model nonadiabatic phenomena that require a periodic modulation of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-01 Mirko Amico , Roman Ya. Kezerashvili

Recent advances in manufacturing photonic integrated devices enable efficient coupling between high-Q microresonators in both linear and nonlinear regimes, creating a tunable, complex, hybridized optical system. Considering two coupled…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-24 Alena Kolesnikova , Ivan Pshenichnyuk , Andrey Gelash

Floquet-Bloch lattices are systems in which wave packets are subjet to periodic modulations both in time and space, showing rich dynamics. While this type of lattices is difficult to implement in solid-state physics, optical systems have…

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…