Colloquium: Atomic quantum gases in periodically driven optical lattices

A Eckardt - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2017 - APS
Time-periodic forcing in the form of coherent radiation is a standard tool for the coherent
manipulation of small quantum systems like single atoms. In the last years, periodic driving …

Universal high-frequency behavior of periodically driven systems: from dynamical stabilization to Floquet engineering

M Bukov, L D'Alessio, A Polkovnikov - Advances in Physics, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
We give a general overview of the high-frequency regime in periodically driven systems and
identify three distinct classes of driving protocols in which the infinite-frequency Floquet …

Cold atoms meet lattice gauge theory

M Aidelsburger, L Barbiero… - … of the Royal …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The central idea of this review is to consider quantum field theory models relevant for
particle physics and replace the fermionic matter in these models by a bosonic one. This is …

Realization of density-dependent Peierls phases to engineer quantized gauge fields coupled to ultracold matter

F Görg, K Sandholzer, J Minguzzi, R Desbuquois… - Nature Physics, 2019 - nature.com
Gauge fields that appear in models of high-energy and condensed-matter physics are
dynamical quantum degrees of freedom due to their coupling to matter fields. Since the …

Emerging two-dimensional gauge theories in Rydberg configurable arrays

A Celi, B Vermersch, O Viyuela, H Pichler, MD Lukin… - Physical Review X, 2020 - APS
Solving strongly coupled gauge theories in two or three spatial dimensions is of fundamental
importance in several areas of physics ranging from high-energy physics to condensed …

Floquet engineering of correlated tunneling in the Bose-Hubbard model with ultracold atoms

F Meinert, MJ Mark, K Lauber, AJ Daley, HC Nägerl - Physical review letters, 2016 - APS
We report on the experimental implementation of tunable occupation-dependent tunneling
in a Bose-Hubbard system of ultracold atoms via time-periodic modulation of the on-site …

Interaction-induced non-Hermitian topological phases from a dynamical gauge field

WN Faugno, T Ozawa - Physical review letters, 2022 - APS
We present a minimal non-Hermitian model where a topologically nontrivial complex energy
spectrum is induced by interparticle interactions. Our model consists of a one-dimensional …

Schrieffer-Wolff transformation for periodically driven systems: Strongly correlated systems with artificial gauge fields

M Bukov, M Kolodrubetz, A Polkovnikov - Physical review letters, 2016 - APS
We generalize the Schrieffer-Wolff transformation to periodically driven systems using
Floquet theory. The method is applied to the periodically driven, strongly interacting Fermi …

Coupling ultracold matter to dynamical gauge fields in optical lattices: From flux attachment to ℤ2 lattice gauge theories

L Barbiero, C Schweizer, M Aidelsburger, E Demler… - Science …, 2019 - science.org
From the standard model of particle physics to strongly correlated electrons, various physical
settings are formulated in terms of matter coupled to gauge fields. Quantum simulations …

Observation of density-dependent gauge fields in a Bose-Einstein condensate based on micromotion control in a shaken two-dimensional lattice

LW Clark, BM Anderson, L Feng, A Gaj, K Levin… - Physical review …, 2018 - APS
We demonstrate a density-dependent gauge field, induced by atomic interactions, for
quantum gases. The gauge field results from the synchronous coupling between the …