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While intense laser irradiation and moir\'e engineering have independently proven powerful for tuning material properties on demand in condensed matter physics, their combination remains unexplored. Here we exploit tilted laser illumination…

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Coherent optical manipulation of electronic bandstructures via Floquet Engineering is a promising means to control quantum systems on an ultrafast timescale. However, the ultrafast switching on/off of the driving field comes with questions…

We have established a rigorous theoretical formalism for Floquet engineering, or investigating and eventually tailoring most crucial electronic properties of tetragonal molybdenum disulfide (1T$^\prime$-MoS$_2$), by applying an external…

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Symmetry breaking plays an important role in fields of physics, ranging from particle physics to condensed matter physics. In solid-state materials, phase transitions are deeply linked to the underlying symmetry breakings, resulting in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-10 Changhua Bao , Fei Wang , Haoyuan Zhong , Shaohua Zhou , Tianyun Lin , Hongyun Zhang , Xuanxi Cai , Wenhui Duan , Shuyun Zhou

Creating and manipulating topological states is a key goal of condensed matter physics. Periodic driving offers a powerful method to manipulate electronic states, and even to create topological states in solids. Here, we investigate the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-03 Xiu-Li Du , Rui Chen , Rui Wang , Dong-Hui Xu

Spin-triplet superconductivity is a key platform for topological quantum computing, yet its experimental realization and control in solid-state materials remain a significant challenge. For this purpose, we propose an ultrafast optical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-29 Zecheng Shen , Chendi Xie , Wei-Chih Chen , Yao Wang

The periodic driving of a quantum system can enable new topological phases without analogs in static systems. This provides a route towards preparing non-equilibrium quantum phases rooted into the non-equilibrium nature by periodic driving…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-22 Yufei Zhu , Tao Qin , Xinxin Yang , Gao Xianlong , Zhaoxin Liang

Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) combine interesting optical and spintronic properties in an atomically-thin material, where the light polarization can be used to control the spin and valley degrees-of-freedom for the development of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-10 Carmem M. Gilardoni , Freddie Hendriks , Caspar H. van der Wal , Marcos H. D. Guimarães

Quantum control of the many-body wavefunction is a central challenge in quantum materials research, as it could yield a precise control knob to manipulate emergent phenomena. Floquet engineering, the coherent dressing of quantum states with…

We investigate Floquet engineering in a sawtooth chain -- a minimal model hosting a nearly flat band endowed with nontrivial quantum geometry -- coupled to driven surface polaritons. In this paradigmatic flat band model, light-matter…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-06-04 Mikołaj Walicki , Christian J. Eckhardt , Michael A. Sentef

Floquet engineering, the control of quantum systems using periodic driving, is an old concept in condensed matter physics, dating back to ideas such as the inverse Faraday effect. There is a renewed interest in this concept owing to the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-12-20 Takashi Oka , Sota Kitamura

Methods to generate spin-polarised electronic states in non-magnetic solids are strongly desired to enable all-electrical manipulation of electron spins for new quantum devices. This is generally accepted to require breaking global…

Symmetry Topological Field Theory (SymTFT) is a framework to capture universal features of quantum many-body systems by viewing them as a boundary of topological order in one higher dimension. This has yielded numerous insights in static…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-03-04 Vedant Motamarri , Campbell McLauchlan , Benjamin Béri

Nonequilibrium manipulation of quantum materials via electromagnetic dressing provides an on-demand route to tailoring electronic band structures through Floquet engineering. Time- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy offers a…

Coupling tailored electromagnetic fluctuations to materials provides a resource for controlling correlated quantum matter. By structuring the frequency, spatial, and modal distribution of fluctuations through a new generation of cavity…

Floquet engineering is a novel method of manipulating quantum phases of matter via periodic driving [1, 2]. It has successfully been utilized in different platforms ranging from photonic systems [3] to optical lattice of ultracold atoms [4,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-06 Dongsung Choi , Masataka Mogi , Umberto De Giovannini , Doron Azoury , Baiqing Lv , Yifan Su , Hannes Hübener , Angel Rubio , Nuh Gedik

Nonlinear Floquet states associated with a symmetry-breaking driving field are exploited to control the dynamics of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a double-well potential. The population imbalance between the two wells is shown to be…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Luis Morales-Molina , Jiangbin Gong

In quantum science applications, ranging from many-body physics to quantum metrology, dipolar interactions in spin ensembles are controlled via Floquet engineering. However, this technique typically reduces the interaction strength between…

Photons, unlike electrons, do not couple directly to magnetic fields, yet synthetic gauge fields can impart magnetic-like responses and enable directional transport. Discretized Floquet evolution provides a controlled route, where the…

The topological characterization of nonequilibrium topological matter is highly nontrivial because familiar approaches designed for equilibrium topological phases may not apply. In the presence of crystal symmetry, Floquet topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-28 Weiwei Zhu , Yidong Chong , Jiangbin Gong