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Time-varying systems open intriguing opportunities to explore novel approaches in the design of efficient electromagnetic devices. While such explorations date back to more than half a century ago, recent years have experienced a renewed…

Optics · Physics 2023-01-05 Zeki Hayran , Francesco Monticone

Time-varying media, characterized by dynamic or spacetime-modulated constitutive parameters such as permittivity and permeability, have recently emerged as a transformative paradigm for advanced wave control, transcending the constraints…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-20 Youxiu Yu , Hao Hu , Qianru Yang , Linyang Zou , Dongjue Liu , Hao Chi Zhang , Yu Luo

Nonlinear classical dissipative systems present a rich phenomenology in their "route to chaos", including period-doubling, i.e. the system evolves with a period which is twice that of the driving. However, typically the attractor of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-07 Reuben R. W. Wang , Bo Xing , Gabriel G. Carlo , Dario Poletti

Floquet topological insulators are topological phases of matter generated by the application of time-periodic perturbations on otherwise conventional insulators. We demonstrate that spatial variations in the time-periodic potential lead to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-04-02 Yaniv Tenenbaum Katan , Daniel Podolsky

We show that the time-dependence of electromagnetic field in a parametrically modulated cavity can be effectively analyzed using a $Floquet$ $map$. The map relates the field states separated by one period of the drive; iterative application…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-17 Ivar Martin

Quantum systems can be dynamically controlled using time-periodic external fields, leading to the concept of Floquet engineering, with promising technological applications. Computing Floquet energy spectra is harder than only computing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-26 Benedikt Fauseweh , Jian-Xin Zhu

Floquet engineering is the concept of tailoring a system by a periodic drive. It has been very successful in opening new classes of Hamiltonians to the study with ultracold atoms in optical lattices, such as artificial gauge fields,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-08-13 Christof Weitenberg , Juliette Simonet

Floquet (periodically driven) systems can give rise to unique non-equilibrium phases of matter without equilibrium analogs. The most prominent example is the realization of discrete time crystals. An intriguing question emerges: what other…

Floquet theory is an indispensable tool for analysing periodically-driven quantum many-body systems. Although it does not universally extend to classical systems, some of its methodologies can be adopted in the presence of well-separated…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-08-22 Thomas Veness , Kay Brandner

Time-periodic dynamical systems occur commonly both in nature and as engineered systems. Large-scale linear time-periodic dynamical systems, for example, may arise through linearization of a nonlinear system about a given periodic solution…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-04 Sam Bender , Christopher Beattie

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

We discover a class of spacetime symmetries unique to time-periodic systems, which we term "mixing symmetry" due to its combination of space and time coordinates in the symmetry transformation. We systematically enumerate the symmetry…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-05-29 Pei Wang

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 propose a generic scattering matrix model implementable in photonics to engineer a new Floquet metallic phase that combines two distinct topological properties: the winding of the bulk bands and the existence of robust chiral edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-07 Lavi Kumar Upreti , Clément Evain , Stephane Randoux , Pierre Suret , Alberto Amo , Pierre Delplace

We analyse quasi-periodically driven quantum systems that can be mapped exactly to periodically driven ones and find Floquet Time Spirals in analogy with spatially incommensurate spiral magnetic states. Generalising the mechanism to…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-10-09 Hongzheng Zhao , Florian Mintert , Johannes Knolle

Floquet time crystals, characterized by momentum gaps (k-gaps), have sparked intense interest across various branches of physics due to their intriguing dynamics and promising applications. Despite growing theoretical efforts, the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-06-02 Z. Liu , X. Zhu , Z. G. Zhang , W. M. Zhang , X. Chen , Y. Q. Yang , R. W. Peng , M. Wang , J. Li , H. W. Wu

Periodically driven quantum systems, known as Floquet systems, have been a focus of non-equilibrium physics in recent years, thanks to their rich dynamics. Not only time-periodic systems exhibit symmetries similar to those in spatially…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-01 Guoqing Wang , Changhao Li , Paola Cappellaro

In this review, we present some fundamental classical and quantum phenomena in view of time fractional formalism. Time fractional formalism is a very useful tool in describing systems with memory and delay. We hope that this study can…

General Physics · Physics 2012-03-27 Hosein Nasrolahpour

The public and scientists constantly have different perspectives. While on a time crystal, they stand in line and ask: What is a time crystal? Show me a material that is spontaneously crystalline in time? This study synthesizes a photonic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-15 Bing Wang , Jiaqi Quan , Jianfei Han , Xiaopeng Shen , Hongwei Wu , Yiming Pan

With significant advances in classifying and cataloguing topological matter, the focus of topological physics has shifted towards quantum control, particularly the creation and manipulation of topological phases of matter. Floquet…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-09-10 Fangyang Zhan , Rui Chen , Zhen Ning , Da-Shuai Ma , Ziming Wang , Dong-Hui Xu , Rui Wang