Recent progress in utilizing ultrafast light-matter interaction to control the macroscopic
properties of quantum materials is reviewed. Particular emphasis is placed on photoinduced …

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 …

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 …

We analyze a one-dimensional XXZ spin chain in a disordered magnetic field. As the main
probes of the system's behavior, we use the sensitivity of eigenstates to adiabatic …

In Floquet engineering, periodic driving is used to realize novel phases of matter that are
inaccessible in thermal equilibrium. For this purpose, the Floquet theory provides us a recipe …

Periodic driving has emerged as a powerful tool in the quest to engineer new and exotic
quantum phases. While driven many-body systems are generically expected to absorb …

We study disorder-induced ergodicity breaking transition in high-energy eigenstates of
interacting spin-1/2 chains. Using exact diagonalization, we introduce a cost function …

We prove the existence of nonequilibrium phases of matter in the prethermal regime of
periodically driven, long-range interacting systems, with power-law exponent α> d, where d …

Time crystals correspond to a phase of matter where time-translational symmetry (TTS) is
broken. Up to date, they are well studied in open quantum systems, where an external drive …

We establish a link between metastability and a discrete time-crystalline phase in a
periodically driven open quantum system. The mechanism we highlight requires neither the …