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Topological phases with a widely tunable number of edge modes have been extensively studied as a typical class of exotic states of matter with potentially important applications. Although several models have been shown to support such…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-08-28 Hui Liu , Tian-Shi Xiong , Wei Zhang , Jun-Hong An

Periodically driven systems play a prominent role in optical lattices. In these ultracold atomic systems, driving is used to create a variety of interesting behaviours, of which an important example is provided by topological states of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-11-27 A. Quelle , C. Weitenberg , K. Sengstock , C. Morais Smith

Time-periodic driving fields could endow a system with peculiar topological and transport features. In this work, we find dynamically controlled localization transitions and mobility edges in non-Hermitian quasicrystals via shaking the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-25 Longwen Zhou

We investigate the dynamical characterization theory for periodically driven systems in which Floquet topology can be fully detected by emergent topological patterns of quench dynamics in momentum subspaces called band-inversion surfaces.…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-02-02 Bei-Bei Wang , Long Zhang

Topologically protected edge states exactly at topological phase boundaries challenge the conventional belief that topological states must be associated with a bulk energy gap. Because periodically driven (Floquet) systems host unusually…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-26 Longwen Zhou , Jiangbin Gong , Xue-Jia Yu

Topological matter exhibits exotic properties yet phases characterized by large topological invariants are difficult to implement, despite rapid experimental progress. A promising route toward higher topological invariants is via engineered…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-02 Lei Xiao , Xingze Qiu , Kunkun Wang , Zhihao Bian , Xiang Zhan , Hideaki Obuse , Barry C. Sanders , Wei Yi , Peng Xue

Floquet states of periodically driven systems could exhibit rich topological properties. Many of them are absent in their static counterparts. One such example is the chiral edge states in anomalous Floquet topological insulators, whose…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-03 Longwen Zhou , Jiangbin Gong

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

Non-Hermitian topological phases in static and periodically driven systems have attracted great attention in recent years. Finding dynamical probes for these exotic phases would be of great importance in the detection and application of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-17 Longwen Zhou

The interplay between Floquet driving and non-Hermitian gain/loss could give rise to intriguing phenomena including topological funneling of light, edge-state delocalization, anomalous topological transitions and Floquet non-Hermitian skin…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Weiwei Zhu , Longwen Zhou , Linhu Li , Jiangbin Gong

Topological phases of matter span a wide area of research shaping fundamental pursuits and offering promise for future applications. While a significant fraction of topological materials has been characterized using symmetry requirements of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-08 Robert-Jan Slager , Adrien Bouhon , F. Nur Ünal

Novel topological properties that arose in the periodically driven system are unique, in which there are two kinds of quasienergy gaps, the zero quasienergy gap and the $\pi$ quasienergy gap. The corresponding edge modes would traverse…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-08 Fei Yang , Zheng Wei , TianMeng Li , Su-Peng Kou

The topological orders in amorphous systems that lack crystalline symmetry have gained considerable attention recently. Here we propose the Floquet amorphous topological matter, among which the topological orders are explored in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-10 Peng He , Jing-Xin Liu , Hong Wu , Z. D. Wang

Results are presented for Floquet systems in two spatial dimensions where the Floquet driving breaks an effective time reversal symmetry. The driving protocol also induces flat bands that correspond to anomalous Floquet phases where the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-15 Ceren B. Dag , Aditi Mitra

Topological phases characterized by non-Abelian charges have garnered increasing attention recently. Although Floquet (periodic-driving) higher-order topological phases have been explored at the single-particle level, the role of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-22 Yujie Zhou , Changsen Li , Xiumei Wang , Xingping Zhou

For spinful systems with spin 1/2, it is generally believed that P and T invariant strong and second-order topologies exist in four band and eight band system, respectively. Here, by using periodic driving, we find it is possible to have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-14 Hong Wu , Yu-Chen Dong , Hui Liu

In spatiotemporally modulated systems, topological states exist not only in energy gaps but also in momentum gaps. Such unconventional topological states impose challenges on topological physics. The underlying models also make the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-17 Weiwei Zhu , Jian-Hua Jiang

Floquet engineering provides a toolbox for the realization of novel quantum phases without static counterparts, while conventionally the realization may rely on the manipulation of complex temporal evolution. Here we propose a systematic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-31 Long Zhang , Xiong-Jun Liu

We experimentally realized a time-periodically modulated 1D lattice for ultracold atoms featuring a pair of linear bands, each associated with a Floquet winding number: a topological invariant. These bands are spin-momentum locked and…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-08-31 Mingwu Lu , G. H. Reid , A. R. Fritsch , A. M. Piñeiro , I. B. Spielman

Recently, several authors have investigated topological phenomena in periodically-driven systems of non-interacting particles. These phenomena are identified through analogies between the Floquet spectra of driven systems and the band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-26 Mark S. Rudner , Netanel H. Lindner , Erez Berg , Michael Levin