Floquet Engineering of Quantum Materials

By T. Oka, Sota Kitamura. Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics, 2018

1,014 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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 effect. However, there is a renewed interest in this concept owing to ( a) the rapid developments in laser and ultrafast spectroscopy techniques, ( b) discovery and understanding of various “quantum materials” hosting interesting exotic quantum properties, and ( c) communication with different areas of physics such as artificial matter and nonequilibrium quantum statistical physics. Here, starting from a nontechnical introduction with emphasis on the Floquet picture and effective Hamiltonians, we review the recent applications of Floquet engineering in ultrafast, nonlinear phenomena in the solid state. In particular, Floquet topological states and their application to ultrafast spintronics and strongly correlated electron systems are overviewed.

Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/77df1c2fe62099367f2f3537400dbd139764a767

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

Citations in the corpus

Quantum computing with neutral atoms (2020, background): “In addition, continuous drive of the system by an external source can extend the variety of phenomena that can be simulated through Floquet engineering [51].”
Colloquium: Nonthermal pathways to ultrafast control in quantum materials (2021, background): “10(a)] (Oka and Kitamura, 2019).”
Octopus, a computational framework for exploring light-driven phenomena and quantum dynamics in extended and finite systems. (2019, background): “…possibility of studying Floquet physics from an ab initio perspective and to simulate directly the effect that a periodic force would have on the dressed electronic structure—an important aspect to underline, given the growing interest in the field of Floquet engineering 142 and Floquet analysis.”