Band structure engineering and non-equilibrium dynamics in Floquet topological insulators

MS Rudner, NH Lindner - Nature reviews physics, 2020 - nature.com
Non-equilibrium topological phenomena can be induced in quantum many-body systems
using time-periodic fields (for example, by laser or microwave illumination). This Review …

Tailoring quantum gases by Floquet engineering

C Weitenberg, J Simonet - Nature Physics, 2021 - nature.com
Floquet engineering is the concept of tailoring a system by a periodic drive, and it is
increasingly employed in many areas of physics. Ultracold atoms in optical lattices offer a …

Topology and broken symmetry in Floquet systems

F Harper, R Roy, MS Rudner… - Annual Review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Floquet systems are governed by periodic, time-dependent Hamiltonians. Prima facie they
should absorb energy from the external drives involved in modulating their couplings and …

From Bloch oscillations to many-body localization in clean interacting systems

E van Nieuwenburg, Y Baum, G Refael - Proceedings of the National …, 2019 - pnas.org
In this work we demonstrate that nonrandom mechanisms that lead to single-particle
localization may also lead to many-body localization, even in the absence of disorder. In …

Quantum and classical Floquet prethermalization

WW Ho, T Mori, DA Abanin, EG Dalla Torre - Annals of Physics, 2023 - Elsevier
Time-periodic (Floquet) driving is a powerful way to control the dynamics of complex
systems, which can be used to induce a plethora of new physical phenomena. However …

Onset of Floquet thermalization

A Haldar, R Moessner, A Das - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
In the presence of interactions, a closed, homogeneous (disorder-free) many-body system is
believed to generically heat up to an “infinite temperature” ensemble when subjected to a …

Dynamical freezing and scar points in strongly driven floquet matter: Resonance vs emergent conservation laws

A Haldar, D Sen, R Moessner, A Das - Physical Review X, 2021 - APS
We consider a clean quantum system subject to strong periodic driving. The existence of a
dominant energy scale, h D x, can generate considerable structure in an effective …

Asymptotic prethermalization in periodically driven classical spin chains

O Howell, P Weinberg, D Sels, A Polkovnikov… - Physical review letters, 2019 - APS
We reveal a continuous dynamical heating transition between a prethermal and an infinite-
temperature stage in a clean, chaotic periodically driven classical spin chain. The transition …

Floquet engineering of topological states in realistic quantum materials via light-matter interactions

H Liu, H Cao, S Meng - Progress in Surface Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Electronic states in quantum materials can be engineered by light irradiation, which is
greatly advanced by ab-initio computational predictions in realistic light-matter coupled …

Statistical mechanics of Floquet quantum matter: Exact and emergent conservation laws

A Haldar, A Das - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Equilibrium statistical mechanics rests on the assumption of chaotic dynamics of a system
modulo the conservation laws of local observables: extremization of entropy immediately …