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Floquet Majorana Fermions appear as steady states at the boundary of time-periodic topological phases of matter. In this work, we theoretically study the main features of these exotic topological phases in the periodically driven…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-01-13 Mónica Benito , Álvaro Gómez-León , Victor Bastidas , Tobias Brandes , Gloria Platero

We theoretically report that high-order sideband generation (HSG) from Floquet matters driven by a strong terahertz light while engineered by weak infrared light can achieve multiple plateau HSG. The Floquet-engineering systems exhibit…

Optics · Physics 2024-04-10 Yu-Xuan Chen , Gan Wang , Mingjie Li , Tao-Yuan Du

Periodically driven (Floquet) phases are attractive due to their ability to host unique physical phenomena with no static counterparts. We propose a general approach in nontrivially devising a square-root version of existing Floquet phases,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-25 Raditya Weda Bomantara

We study nonequilibrium steady states in a holographic superconductor under time periodic driving by an external rotating electric field. We obtain the dynamical phase diagram. Superconducting phase transition is of first or second order…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-12-19 Takaaki Ishii , Keiju Murata

In superconductors (SC), the Higgs amplitude mode is a coherent oscillation of the order parameter typically generated by THz laser irradiation. In this paper we propose to probe the Higgs mode using electronic transport in ballistic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-25 Pierre Vallet , Jérôme Cayssol

We bring forward a Green function approach for the prediction of Floquet topological phases in driven superconductor-semiconductor hybrids. Although it is common to treat the superconducting component as a mere Cooper-pair reservoir, it was…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-14 Mohamed Assili , Panagiotis Kotetes

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

The ultrafast optical manipulation of ordered phases in strongly correlated materials is a topic of significant theoretical, experimental, and technological interest. Inspired by a recent experiment on light-induced superconductivity in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-07-26 Mehrtash Babadi , Michael Knap , Ivar Martin , Gil Refael , Eugene Demler

We consider a Floquet triple-layer setup composed of a two-dimensional electron gas with spin-orbit interactions, proximity coupled to an s-wave superconductor and to a ferromagnet driven at resonance. The ferromagnetic layer generates a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-06 Kirill Plekhanov , Manisha Thakurathi , Daniel Loss , Jelena Klinovaja

We derive a systematic high-frequency expansion for the effective Hamiltonian and the micromotion operator of periodically driven quantum systems. Our approach is based on the block diagonalization of the quasienergy operator in the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-09-25 André Eckardt , Egidijus Anisimovas

A superconductor subject to electromagnetic irradiation in the terahertz range can show amplitude oscillations of its order parameter. However, coupling this so-called Higgs mode to the charge current is notoriously difficult. We propose to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-08 Gaomin Tang , Wolfgang Belzig , Ulrich Zülicke , Christoph Bruder

We find nonequilibrium phase transitions accompanied by multiple (nested) hysteresis behaviors in superconductors coupled to baths under a time-periodic light driving. The transitions are demonstrated with a full phase diagram in the domain…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-12-23 Huanyu Zhang , Kazuaki Takasan , Naoto Tsuji

By applying a microscopic gauge-invariant kinetic theory in $d$-wave superconductors, we analytically derive the energy spectra of the breathing Higgs mode and, in particular, rotating Higgs mode that is unique for the $d$-wave order…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-07-27 F. Yang , M. W. Wu

Driving superconductors out of equilibrium is a promising avenue to study their equilibrium properties as well as to control the superconducting state. Non-equilibrium superconductors are often studied using time resolved optical…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-11-27 A. Kumar , A. F. Kemper

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 study collective amplitude modes of the superconducting order parameter in strongly-coupled electron-phonon systems described by the Holstein model using the nonequilibrium dynamical mean-field theory with the self-consistent Migdal…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-06-19 Yuta Murakami , Philipp Werner , Naoto Tsuji , Hideo Aoki

Strong light fields have created spectacular opportunities to tailor novel functionalities of solids. Floquet-Bloch states can form under periodic driving of electrons and enable exotic quantum phases. On subcycle time scales, lightwaves…

Floquet systems are governed by periodic, time-dependent, Hamiltonians. Prima facie they should absorb energy from the external drives involved in modulating their couplings and heat up to infinite temperature. However this unhappy state of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-10-05 Fenner Harper , Rahul Roy , Mark S. Rudner , S. L. Sondhi

Ultracold atomic gas provides a useful tool to explore many-body physics. One of the recent additions to this experimental toolbox is the Floquet engineering, where periodic modulation of the Hamiltonian allows the creation of effective…

Periodic (Floquet) driving enables Hamiltonian engineering and nonequilibrium phases, but interacting systems eventually heat by absorbing energy from the drive. Disorder can greatly delay this process, yielding long-lived prethermal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-07 Cooper M. Selco , Christian Bengs , Chaitali Shah , Ashok Ajoy