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Title: Topological Frequency Conversion in Strongly Driven Quantum Systems

Journal Article · · Physical Review. X

When a physical system is subjected to a strong external multi-frequency drive, its dynamics can be conveniently represented in the multi-dimensional Floquet lattice. The number of the Floquet lattice dimensions equals the number of irrationally-related drive frequencies, and the evolution occurs in response to a built-in effective \electric" field, whose components are proportional to the corresponding drive frequencies. The mapping allows to engineer and study temporal analogs of many real-space phenomena. Here we focus on the specifc example of a two-level system under two-frequency drive that induces topologically nontrivial band structure in the 2D Floquet space. The observable consequence of such construction is quantized pumping of energy between the sources with frequencies w1 and w2. Finally, when the system is initialized into a Floquet band with the Chern number C, the pumping occurs at the rate P12 = –P21 = (C/2π)hw1w2, an exact counterpart of the transverse current in a conventional topological insulator.

Research Organization:
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-06CH11357
OSTI ID:
1399642
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1400405
Journal Information:
Physical Review. X, Journal Name: Physical Review. X Vol. 7 Journal Issue: 4; ISSN 2160-3308
Publisher:
American Physical SocietyCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 105 works
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