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We propose and analyse an efficient scheme for simulating higher-order topological phases of matter in two dimensional (2D) spin-phononic crystal networks. We show that, through a specially designed periodic driving, one can selectively…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-20 Xiao-Xiao Li , Peng-Bo Li

Discrete time crystal is a class of nonequilibrium quantum systems exhibiting subharmonic responses to external periodic driving. Here we propose a class of discrete time crystals enforced by nonsymmorphic dynamical symmetry. We start with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-10 Zi-Ang Hu , Bo Fu , Xiao Li , Shun-Qing Shen

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

In a periodically driven (Floquet) system, there is the possibility for new phases of matter, not present in stationary systems, protected by discrete time-translation symmetry. This includes topological phases protected in part by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-04-10 Dominic V. Else , Bela Bauer , Chetan Nayak

This paper investigates the dynamical phases of Floquet Conformal Field Theories (CFTs) in space-time dimensions greater than two. Building upon our previous work [1] which introduced quaternionic representations for studying Floquet…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-17 Diptarka Das , Sumit R. Das , Arnab Kundu , Krishnendu Sengupta

We study Floquet topological phases in periodically driven systems that are protected by "time glide symmetry", a combination of reflection and half time period translation. Time glide symmetry is an analog of glide symmetry with partial…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-05-30 Takahiro Morimoto , Hoi Chun Po , Ashvin Vishwanath

Periodically driven quantum systems can host non-equilibrium phenomena without static analogs, including in their entanglement dynamics. Here, we discover $temporal$ $entanglement$ $transitions$ (TET) in a Floquet spin chain, which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-13 Karun Gadge , Abhinav Prem , Rishabh Jha

Floquet systems display rich phenomena, such as time crystals, with many-body localisation (MBL) protecting the phases from heating. While several types of Floquet phases have been classified, a unified picture of Floquet MBL is still…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-19 Campbell McLauchlan , Vedant Motamarri , Benjamin Béri

In this paper, we study the scattering and diffraction phenomena in time-modulated metamaterials of metallic nature by means of Floquet equivalent circuits. Concretely, we focus on a time-periodic screen that alternates between "metal" and…

We consider the effects of leakage on the ability to realize a discrete time crystal (DTC) in a semiconductor quantum dot linear array being operated as a chain of singlet-triplet (ST) qubits. This system realizes an Ising model with an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-26 Robert E. Throckmorton , S. Das Sarma

Time crystals form when arbitrary physical states of a periodically driven system spontaneously break discrete time-translation symmetry. We introduce one-dimensional time-crystalline topological superconductors, for which time-translation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-11 Aaron Chew , David F. Mross , Jason Alicea

We study the properties {of a conformal field theory} (CFT) driven periodically with a continuous protocol characterized by a frequency $\omega_D$. Such a drive, in contrast to its discrete counterparts (such as square pulses or periodic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-06-11 Diptarka Das , Roopayan Ghosh , Krishnendu Sengupta

Periodically time-varying media, known as photonic time crystals (PTCs), provide a promising platform for observing unconventional wave phenomena. We analyze the scattering of electromagnetic waves from spatially finite PTCs using the…

Neutral atom arrays driven into Rydberg states constitute a promising approach for realizing programmable quantum systems. Enabled by strong interactions associated with Rydberg blockade, they allow for simulation of complex spin models and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-07 Nazlı Uğur Köylüoğlu , Nishad Maskara , Johannes Feldmeier , Mikhail D. Lukin

Floquet driven systems represent an extremely interesting arena to study out-of-equilibrium phenomena. For instance, they provide realizations of discrete time crystals, where the discrete time translation symmetry of the periodic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-25 J. R. M. de Nova , F. Sols

Periodically driven quantum many-body systems can spontaneously break discrete time-translation symmetry, realizing discrete time crystals. To date, both experimental and theoretical efforts have largely focused on the simplest case of…

We study transitions between distinct phases of one-dimensional periodically driven (Floquet) systems. We argue that these are generically controlled by infinite-randomness fixed points of a strong-disorder renormalization group procedure.…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-09-25 William Berdanier , Michael Kolodrubetz , S. A. Parameswaran , Romain Vasseur

Periodically driven (Floquet) crystals are described by their quasi-energy spectrum. Their topological properties are characterized by invariants attached to the gaps of this spectrum. In this article, we define such invariants in all space…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-22 Michel Fruchart

Studies of periodically driven one-dimensional many-body systems have advanced our understanding of complex systems and stimulated promising developments in quantum simulation. It is hence of interest to go one step further, by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-04 Raditya Weda Bomantara , Sen Mu , Jiangbin Gong

The period-doubling oscillation emerges with the coexistence between zero and {\pi} modes in Floquet topological insulator. Here, utilized the flexibility of the circuit, we construct the Floquet circuit with frequency-synthetic dimension…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-06 Bo Lv , Shiyun Xia , Ye Tian , Ting Liu , Hongyang Mu , Zhichao Shen , Sijie Wang , Zheng Zhu , Huibin Tao , Fanyi Meng , Jinhui Shi