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 …

Realization of an anomalous Floquet topological system with ultracold atoms

K Wintersperger, C Braun, FN Ünal, A Eckardt… - Nature Physics, 2020 - nature.com
Coherent control via periodic modulation, also known as Floquet engineering, has emerged
as a powerful experimental method for the realization of novel quantum systems with exotic …

Topological photonics

T Ozawa, HM Price, A Amo, N Goldman, M Hafezi… - Reviews of Modern …, 2019 - APS
Topological photonics is a rapidly emerging field of research in which geometrical and
topological ideas are exploited to design and control the behavior of light. Drawing …

Measuring topology from dynamics by obtaining the Chern number from a linking number

M Tarnowski, FN Ünal, N Fläschner, BS Rem… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Integer-valued topological indices, characterizing nonlocal properties of quantum states of
matter, are known to directly predict robust physical properties of equilibrium systems. The …

Counterdiabatic driving for periodically driven systems

PM Schindler, M Bukov - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Periodically driven systems have emerged as a useful technique to engineer the properties
of quantum systems, and are in the process of being developed into a standard toolbox for …

Hopf characterization of two-dimensional Floquet topological insulators

FN Ünal, A Eckardt, RJ Slager - Physical Review Research, 2019 - APS
We present a topological characterization of time-periodically driven two-band models in 2+
1 dimensions as Hopf insulators. The intrinsic periodicity of the Floquet system with respect …

Anomalous floquet insulators

F Nathan, D Abanin, E Berg, NH Lindner, MS Rudner - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
Landau's theory of phase transitions provides a framework for describing phases of matter in
thermodynamic equilibrium. Recently, an intriguing new class of quantum many-body …

The Floquet engineer's handbook

MS Rudner, NH Lindner - arxiv preprint arxiv:2003.08252, 2020 - arxiv.org
We provide a pedagogical technical guide to many of the key theoretical tools and ideas that
underlie work in the field of Floquet engineering. We hope that this document will serve as a …

Prethermalization and thermalization in periodically driven many-body systems away from the high-frequency limit

C Fleckenstein, M Bukov - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
We investigate a class of periodically driven many-body systems that allows us to extend the
phenomenon of prethermalization to the vicinity of isolated intermediate-to-low drive …