Collisions of ultracold molecules in bright and dark optical dipole traps

R Bause, A Schindewolf, R Tao, M Duda, XY Chen… - Physical Review …, 2021 - APS
Understanding collisions between ultracold molecules is crucial for making stable molecular
quantum gases and harnessing their rich internal degrees of freedom for quantum …

Long-range prethermal phases of nonequilibrium matter

F Machado, DV Else, GD Kahanamoku-Meyer… - Physical Review X, 2020 - APS
We prove the existence of nonequilibrium phases of matter in the prethermal regime of
periodically driven, long-range interacting systems, with power-law exponent α> d, where d …

Bimorphic Floquet topological insulators

GG Pyrialakos, J Beck, M Heinrich, LJ Maczewsky… - Nature Materials, 2022 - nature.com
Topological theories have established a unique set of rules that govern the transport
properties in a wide variety of wave-mechanical settings. In a marked departure from the …

Hopf characterization of two-dimensional Floquet topological insulators

FN Ünal, A Eckardt, RJ Slager - Physical Review Research, 2019 - APS
We present a topological characterization of time-periodically driven two-band models in 2+
1 dimensions as Hopf insulators. The intrinsic periodicity of the Floquet system with respect …

Non-Abelian Hopf-Euler insulators

WJ Jankowski, AS Morris, Z Davoyan, A Bouhon… - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
We discuss a class of three-band non-Abelian topological insulators in three dimensions
that carry a single bulk Hopf index protected by spatiotemporal (PT) inversion symmetry …

Multiplicative topological phases

AM Cook, JE Moore - Communications Physics, 2022 - nature.com
Symmetry-protected topological phases of matter have challenged our understanding of
condensed matter systems and harbour exotic phenomena promising to address major …

Digital quantum simulation of Floquet topological phases with a solid-state quantum simulator

B Chen, S Li, X Hou, F Ge, F Zhou, P Qian, F Mei… - Photonics …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Harnessing the dynamics of complex quantum systems is an area of much interest and a
quantum simulator has emerged as a promising platform to probe exotic topological phases …

Floquet engineering ultracold polar molecules to simulate topological insulators

T Schuster, F Flicker, M Li, S Kotochigova, JE Moore… - Physical Review A, 2021 - APS
We present a quantitative, near-term experimental blueprint for the quantum simulation of
topological insulators using lattice-trapped ultracold polar molecules. In particular, we focus …

Floquet higher-order Weyl and nexus semimetals

W Zhu, M Umer, J Gong - Physical Review Research, 2021 - APS
This work reports the general design and characterization of two exotic, anomalous
nonequilibrium gapless topological phases. In equilibrium systems, the Weyl nodes or the …

Three-dimensional -symmetric topological phases with a Pontryagin index

Z Davoyan, WJ Jankowski, A Bouhon, RJ Slager - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
We report on a certain class of three-dimensional topological insulators and semimetals
protected by spinless PT symmetry, hosting an integer-valued bulk invariant. We show using …