Floquet engineering of quantum materials

T Oka, S Kitamura - Annual Review of Condensed Matter …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
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 …

Geometric aspects of nonlinear and nonequilibrium phenomena

T Morimoto, S Kitamura, N Nagaosa - Journal of the Physical Society …, 2023 - journals.jps.jp
We review recent developments in the research of nonlinear and nonequilibrium
phenomena in solids focusing on their geometrical aspects. We start with introducing the …

Ultrafast generation of skyrmionic defects with vortex beams: Printing laser profiles on magnets

H Fujita, M Sato - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
Controlling electric and magnetic properties of matter by laser beams is actively explored in
the broad region of condensed matter physics, including spintronics and magneto-optics …

Time crystals protected by floquet dynamical symmetry in hubbard models

K Chinzei, TN Ikeda - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
We investigate an unconventional symmetry in time-periodically driven systems, the Floquet
dynamical symmetry (FDS). Unlike the usual symmetries, the FDS gives symmetry sectors …

Laser-driven multiferroics and ultrafast spin current generation

M Sato, S Takayoshi, T Oka - Physical review letters, 2016 - APS
We propose an ultrafast way to generate spin chirality and spin current in a class of
multiferroic magnets using a terahertz circularly polarized laser. Using the Floquet formalism …

Probing and controlling spin chirality in Mott insulators by circularly polarized laser

S Kitamura, T Oka, H Aoki - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
Scalar spin chirality, a three-body spin correlation that breaks time-reversal symmetry, is
revealed to couple directly to circularly polarized laser. This is shown by the Floquet …

Floquet topological magnons

SA Owerre - Journal of Physics Communications, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We introduce the concept of Floquet topological magnons—a mechanism by which a
synthetic tunable Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interaction (DMI) can be generated in quantum …

Nonequilibrium steady states in the Floquet-Lindblad systems: van Vleck's high-frequency expansion approach

T Ikeda, K Chinzei, M Sato - SciPost Physics Core, 2021 - scipost.org
Nonequilibrium steady states (NESSs) in periodically driven dissipative quantum systems
are vital in Floquet engineering. We develop a general theory for high-frequency drives with …

Dynamical and reversible control of topological spin textures

EA Stepanov, C Dutreix, MI Katsnelson - Physical Review Letters, 2017 - APS
Recent observations of topological spin textures brought spintronics one step closer to new
magnetic memories. Nevertheless, the existence of Skyrmions, as well as their stabilization …

Laser-induced Kondo effect in ultracold alkaline-earth fermions

M Nakagawa, N Kawakami - Physical review letters, 2015 - APS
We demonstrate that laser excitations can coherently induce a novel Kondo effect in
ultracold atoms in optical lattices. Using a model of alkaline-earth fermions with two orbitals …