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How to Directly Measure Floquet Topological Invariants in Optical Lattices (1812.04636v2)

Published 11 Dec 2018 in cond-mat.quant-gas, cond-mat.mes-hall, physics.atom-ph, and quant-ph

Abstract: The classification of topological Floquet systems with time-periodic Hamiltonians transcends that of static systems. For example, spinless fermions in periodically driven two-dimensional lattices are not completely characterized by the Chern numbers of the quasienergy bands, but rather by a set of winding numbers associated with the quasienergy gaps. We propose a scheme for measuring these winding numbers in a system of fermionic cold atoms in a periodically driven optical lattice efficiently and directly. It is based on the construction of a one-parameter family of experimentally feasible drives, continuously connecting the Floquet system of interest to a trivial reference system. The winding numbers are then determined by the identification and the tomography of the band-touching singularities occurring on the way. As a byproduct, we also propose a method for probing spectral properties of time evolution operators via a time analog of crystallography.

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