Topological bands for ultracold atoms

NR Cooper, J Dalibard, IB Spielman - Reviews of modern physics, 2019 - APS
There have been significant recent advances in realizing band structures with geometrical
and topological features in experiments on cold atomic gases. This review summarizes …

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 …

High-frequency approximation for periodically driven quantum systems from a Floquet-space perspective

A Eckardt, E Anisimovas - New journal of physics, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We derive a systematic high-frequency expansion for the effective Hamiltonian and the
micromotion operator of periodically driven quantum systems. Our approach is based on the …

[HTML][HTML] Artificial gauge fields in materials and engineered systems

M Aidelsburger, S Nascimbene, N Goldman - Comptes Rendus Physique, 2018 - Elsevier
Artificial gauge fields are currently realized in a wide range of physical settings. This
includes solid-state devices but also engineered systems, such as photonic crystals …

Floquet prethermalization in a Bose-Hubbard system

A Rubio-Abadal, M Ippoliti, S Hollerith, D Wei, J Rui… - Physical Review X, 2020 - APS
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 …

Floquet engineering with quasienergy bands of periodically driven optical lattices

M Holthaus - Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
A primer on the Floquet theory of periodically time-dependent quantum systems is provided,
and it is shown how to apply this framework for computing the quasienergy band structure …

Measuring quantized circular dichroism in ultracold topological matter

L Asteria, DT Tran, T Ozawa, M Tarnowski, BS Rem… - Nature physics, 2019 - nature.com
The topology of two-dimensional materials traditionally manifests itself through the
quantization of the Hall conductance, which is revealed in transport measurements …

Quantum spin dynamics with pairwise-tunable, long-range interactions

CL Hung, A González-Tudela, JI Cirac… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - pnas.org
We present a platform for the simulation of quantum magnetism with full control of
interactions between pairs of spins at arbitrary distances in 1D and 2D lattices. In our …

Low-frequency and Moiré–Floquet engineering: A review

M Rodriguez-Vega, M Vogl, GA Fiete - Annals of Physics, 2021 - Elsevier
We review recent work on low-frequency Floquet engineering and its application to quantum
materials driven by light, focusing on van der Waals systems hosting Moiré superlattices …

Interaction dependent heating and atom loss in a periodically driven optical lattice

M Reitter, J Näger, K Wintersperger, C Sträter, I Bloch… - Physical review …, 2017 - APS
Periodic driving of optical lattices has enabled the creation of novel band structures not
realizable in static lattice systems, such as topological bands for neutral particles. However …