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We study a generalization of Kitaev's abelian toric code model defined on CW complexes. In this model qudits are attached to $n$ dimensional cells and the interaction is given by generalized star and plaquette operators. These are defined…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-07-09 Péter Vrana , Máté Farkas

We introduce hybrid fracton orders: three-dimensional gapped quantum phases that exhibit the phenomenology of both conventional three-dimensional topological orders and fracton orders. Hybrid fracton orders host both (i) mobile topological…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-06-25 Nathanan Tantivasadakarn , Wenjie Ji , Sagar Vijay

Non-Abelian topological phases, which go beyond traditional Abelian topological band theory, are garnering increasing attention. This is further spurred by periodic driving, leading to predictions of many novel multi-gap Floquet topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-12 Huahui Qiu , Shuaishuai Tong , Qicheng Zhang , Kun Zhang , Chunyin Qiu

We study a periodically driven spin-$1/2$ Ising chain with a nearest-neighbour coupling and longitudinal field while a weak transverse field induces single-spin flips. Through Floquet perturbation theory (FPT), we obtain signatures of…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-25 Rishi Paresh Joshi , Sanchayan Banerjee , Sneha Narasimha Moorthy , Tapan Mishra

We propose a class of photonic Floquet topological insulators based on staggered helical lattices and an efficient numerical method for calculating their Floquet bandstructure. The lattices support anomalous Floquet topological insulator…

Optics · Physics 2016-07-06 Daniel Leykam , M. C. Rechtsman , Y. D. Chong

Higgs modes emerge in superconductors as collective excitations of the order parameter amplitude when periodically driven by electromagnetic radiation. In this work, we develop a Floquet approach to study Higgs modes in superconductors…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-06-05 Tobias Kuhn , Björn Sothmann , Jorge Cayao

Higher order topology, in the form of the emergence of corner modes, is observed in two dimensions when crystalline symmetries are superposed on the Altland-Zirnbauer classification of topological insulators. It occurs in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-02 Koustav Roy , Latu Kalita , B. Tanatar , Saurabh Basu

Recently, Hastings & Haah introduced a quantum memory defined on the honeycomb lattice. Remarkably, this honeycomb code assembles weight-six parity checks using only two-local measurements. The sparse connectivity and two-local measurements…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-22 Craig Gidney , Michael Newman , Austin Fowler , Michael Broughton

We combine tensor-network approaches and high-order linked-cluster expansions to investigate the quantum phase diagram of the antiferromagnetic Kitaev's honeycomb model in a magnetic field for general spin values. For the pure Kitaev model,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-10-08 Saeed S. Jahromi , Max Hörmann , Patrick Adelhardt , Sebastian Fey , Hooman Karamnejad , Roman Orus , Kai Phillip Schmidt

We study the topological properties of 3D Floquet bandstructures, which are defined using unitary evolution matrices rather than Hamiltonians. Previously, 2D bandstructures of this sort have been shown to exhibit anomalous topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-20 Hailong Wang , Longwen Zhou , Yidong Chong

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

Floquet codes have recently emerged as a new family of error-correcting codes, and have drawn significant interest across both theoretical and practical quantum computing. A central open question has been how to implement logical operations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-14 Alexandra E. Moylett , Bhargavi Jonnadula

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

We investigate the nature of the topological phase transition of the antiferromagnetic Kitaev model on the honeycomb lattice in the presence of a magnetic field along the [111] direction. The field opens a topological gap in the Majorana…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-30 S. Thiagarajan , C. Watson , T. Yzeiri , H. Hu , B. Uchoa , F. Krüger

This Letter outlines 20 geometric mechanisms by which limit cycles are created locally in two-dimensional piecewise-smooth systems of ODEs. These include boundary equilibrium bifurcations of hybrid systems, Filippov systems, and continuous…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-08-15 D. J. W. Simpson

The properties of the Hofstadter butterfly, a fractal, self similar spectrum of a two dimensional electron gas, are studied in the case where the system is additionally illuminated with monochromatic light. This is accomplished by applying…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 Martin Wackerl , Paul Wenk , John Schliemann

We discover novel topological effects in the one-dimensional Kitaev chain modified by long-range Hamiltonian deformations in the hopping and pairing terms. This class of models display symmetry-protected topological order measured by the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-09-20 O. Viyuela , D. Vodola , G. Pupillo , M. A. Martin-Delgado

Floquet topological insulators describe independent electrons on a lattice driven out of equilibrium by a time-periodic Hamiltonian, beyond the usual adiabatic approximation. In dimension two such systems are characterized by integer-valued…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-03-05 Gian Michele Graf , Clément Tauber

The honeycomb Kitaev model describes a $Z_2$ spin liquid with topological order and fractionalized excitations consisting of gapped $\pi$-fluxes and free Majorana fermions. Competing interactions, even when not very strong, are known to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-01-14 Jagannath Das , Sarbajaya Kundu , Aman Kumar , Vikram Tripathi

It is shown that the stroboscopic time-evolution under a Floquet unitary, in any spatial dimension, and of any Hermitian operator, can be mapped to an operator Krylov space which is identical to that generated by the edge operator of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-10-07 Hsiu-Chung Yeh , Aditi Mitra