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 …

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 …

Topological quantum matter with ultracold gases in optical lattices

N Goldman, JC Budich, P Zoller - Nature Physics, 2016 - nature.com
Since the discovery of topological insulators, many topological phases have been predicted
and realized in a range of different systems, providing both fascinating physics and exciting …

Topological quantum matter with cold atoms

DW Zhang, YQ Zhu, YX Zhao, H Yan… - Advances in Physics, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
This is an introductory review of the physics of topological quantum matter with cold atoms.
Topological quantum phases, originally discovered and investigated in condensed matter …

Measuring the Chern number of Hofstadter bands with ultracold bosonic atoms

M Aidelsburger, M Lohse, C Schweizer, M Atala… - Nature Physics, 2015 - nature.com
Sixty years ago, Karplus and Luttinger pointed out that quantum particles moving on a lattice
could acquire an anomalous transverse velocity in response to a force, providing an …

Photonic materials in circuit quantum electrodynamics

I Carusotto, AA Houck, AJ Kollár, P Roushan… - Nature Physics, 2020 - nature.com
Photonic synthetic materials provide an opportunity to explore the role of microscopic
quantum phenomena in determining macroscopic material properties. There are, however …

Periodically driven quantum systems: effective Hamiltonians and engineered gauge fields

N Goldman, J Dalibard - Physical review X, 2014 - APS
Driving a quantum system periodically in time can profoundly alter its long-time dynamics
and trigger topological order. Such schemes are particularly promising for generating …

Realization of the Hofstadter Hamiltonian with ultracold atoms in optical lattices

M Aidelsburger, M Atala, M Lohse, JT Barreiro… - Physical review …, 2013 - APS
We demonstrate the experimental implementation of an optical lattice that allows for the
generation of large homogeneous and tunable artificial magnetic fields with ultracold atoms …

Quantum simulations of lattice gauge theories using ultracold atoms in optical lattices

E Zohar, JI Cirac, B Reznik - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Can high-energy physics be simulated by low-energy, non-relativistic, many-body systems
such as ultracold atoms? Such ultracold atomic systems lack the type of symmetries and …