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Time-periodic modulation of a static system is a powerful method for realizing robust unidirectional topological states. So far, all such realizations have been based on interactions among $s$ orbitals, without incorporating inter-orbital…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-15 Gayathry Rajeevan , Sebabrata Mukherjee

Periodically driven (Floquet) systems have been under active theoretical and experimental investigations. This paper aims at a systematic study in the following aspects of Floquet systems: (i) A systematic formulation of topological…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-11-15 Shunyu Yao , Zhongbo Yan , Zhong Wang

A quantum kicked rotor model is one of the promising systems to realize various Floquet topological phases. We consider a double-kicked rotor model for a one-dimensional quasi-spin-1/2 Bose-Einstein condensate with spin-dependent and…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-11-27 Yusuke Koyama , Kazuya Fujimoto , Shuta Nakajima , Yuki Kawaguchi

We extend the notion of fragile topology to periodically-driven systems. We demonstrate driving-induced fragile topology in two different models, namely, the Floquet honeycomb model and the Floquet $\pi$-flux square-lattice model. In both…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-31 Rui-Xing Zhang , Zhi-Cheng Yang

The St\v{r}eda formula establishes a fundamental connection between the topological invariants characterizing the bulk of topological matter and the presence of gapless edge modes. In this work, we extend the St\v{r}eda formula to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-12 Lucila Peralta Gavensky , Gonzalo Usaj , Nathan Goldman

We propose a realistic scheme to construct anomalous Floquet Chern topological insulators using spin-1/2 particles carrying out a discrete-time quantum walk in a two-dimensional lattice. By Floquet engineering the quantum-walk protocol, an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-21 Muhammad Sajid , János K. Asbóth , Dieter Meschede , Reinhard F. Werner , Andrea Alberti

Time-dependent systems have recently been shown to support novel types of topological order that cannot be realised in static systems. In this paper, we consider a range of time-dependent, interacting systems in one dimension that are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-09-07 Rahul Roy , Fenner Harper

We review methods for using time-periodic fields (e.g., laser or microwave fields) to induce non-equilibrium topological phenomena in quantum many-body systems. We discuss how such fields can be used to change the topological properties of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-17 Mark S. Rudner , Netanel H. Lindner

Periodically driven quantum systems provide a novel and versatile platform for realizing topological phenomena. Among these are analogs of topological insulators and superconductors, attainable in static systems; however, some of these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-12 Paraj Titum , Erez Berg , Mark S. Rudner , Gil Refael , Netanel H. Lindner

Tremendous efforts have been devoted to the search for exotic topological states, which usually exist at an interface between lattices with differing topological invariants according to the bulk-edge correspondence. Here, we show a new…

Optics · Physics 2022-05-10 Wange Song , Hanmeng Li , Shenglun Gao , Shengjie Wu , Chen Chen , Shining Zhu , Tao Li

We propose and analyze two distinct routes toward realizing interacting symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phases via periodic driving. First, we demonstrate that a driven transverse-field Ising model can be used to engineer complex…

With respect to the quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE), the detection of topological nontrivial large-Chern-number phases is an intriguing subject. Motivated by recent research on Floquet topological phases, this study proposes a periodic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-05-06 Shujie Cheng , Honghao Yin , Zhanpeng Lu , Chaocheng He , Pei Wang , Gao Xianlong

Similar to static systems, periodically driven systems can host a variety of topologically non-trivial phases. Unlike the case of static Hamiltonians, the topological indices of bulk Floquet bands may fail to describe the presence and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-03 I. C. Fulga , M. Maksymenko

We develop an experimental protocol based on Floquet-engineered ultracold fermions in optical lattices, enabling the emulation of pair-hopping and competing singlet/triplet pairing interactions. Through large-scale density matrix…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-04-07 Zhi Lin , Qi Song , Sheng Yue , Ming Yang , Jie Lou , Yan Chen

M\"obius topological insulators have dispersive edge bands with M\"obius twists in momentum space, which are protected by the combination of chiral and $Z_2$-projective translational symmetries. In this work, we reveal a unique type of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-09 Longwen Zhou , Fan Zhang , Jiaxin Pan

Motivated by the recent observation of real-space edge modes with ultracold atoms [Braun et al., Nat. Phys. 20, 1306 (2024)], we investigate the preparation and detection of anomalous counterpropagating edge states -- a defining feature of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-05-28 Hongting Hou , Long Zhang

We consider asymmetric and symmetric dimerized two-leg ladders, comprising of four different lattice points per unit cell, illuminated by circularly polarized light. In the asymmetric dimerized ladder case, rungs are not perpendicular to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-08 Milad Jangjan , Mir Vahid Hosseini

Periodically driven systems host topological phases without static analogs, such as the anomalous Floquet phase characterized by trivial bulk bands yet robust boundary modes. In this work, we investigate the scattering problem of a Floquet…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 Fangqiao Ye , Haiping Hu

One of the most intriguing advantage of Floquet engineering is to generate new phases with large topological invariants. In this work, we experimentally simulate a periodically quenched generalized Haldane model on an NV center in diamond,…

We study the appearance of topological Floquet flat bands in alternating-twist multilayer graphene, which has alternating relative twist angle $\pm\theta$ near the first magic angle. While the system hosts both flat bands and a steep Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-24 Yingyi Huang