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 …

Solitons, nonlinear self-trapped wavepackets, have been extensively studied in many and
diverse branches of physics such as optics, plasmas, condensed matter physics, fluid …

Quantum simulators are controllable quantum systems that can be used to mimic other
quantum systems. They have the potential to enable the tackling of problems that are …

Over the last few years arrays of evanescently coupled waveguides have been brought into
focus as a particular representation of functionalized optical materials, in which the …

We provide an overview of recent experimental and theoretical developments in the area of
optical discrete solitons. By nature, discrete solitons represent self-trapped wavepackets in …

We review recent progresses in the study of flat band systems, especially focusing on the
fundamental physics related to the singularity of the flat band's Bloch wave functions. We first …

We review both theoretical and experimental advances in the recently emerged field of
modulated photonic lattices. These artificial periodic dielectric structures provide a powerful …

We employ a quantum Liouville equation with relaxation to model the recently observed
anomalous Hall effect in graphene irradiated by an ultrafast pulse of circularly polarized …

Engineered photonic waveguides have provided in the past decade an extremely rich
laboratory tool to visualize with optical waves the classic analogues of a wide variety of …

We report on measurements of dynamical suppression of interwell tunneling of a Bose-
Einstein condensate (BEC) in a strongly driven optical lattice. The strong driving is a …