Topological bands for ultracold atoms

NR Cooper, J Dalibard, IB Spielman - Reviews of modern physics, 2019 - APS
There have been significant recent advances in realizing band structures with geometrical
and topological features in experiments on cold atomic gases. This review summarizes …

Colloquium: Atomic quantum gases in periodically driven optical lattices

A Eckardt - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2017 - APS
Time-periodic forcing in the form of coherent radiation is a standard tool for the coherent
manipulation of small quantum systems like single atoms. In the last years, periodic driving …

Universal high-frequency behavior of periodically driven systems: from dynamical stabilization to Floquet engineering

M Bukov, L D'Alessio, A Polkovnikov - Advances in Physics, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
We give a general overview of the high-frequency regime in periodically driven systems and
identify three distinct classes of driving protocols in which the infinite-frequency Floquet …

[HTML][HTML] Artificial gauge fields in materials and engineered systems

M Aidelsburger, S Nascimbene, N Goldman - Comptes Rendus Physique, 2018 - Elsevier
Artificial gauge fields are currently realized in a wide range of physical settings. This
includes solid-state devices but also engineered systems, such as photonic crystals …

Four-dimensional quantum Hall effect with ultracold atoms

HM Price, O Zilberberg, T Ozawa, I Carusotto… - Physical review …, 2015 - APS
We propose a realistic scheme to detect the 4D quantum Hall effect using ultracold atoms.
Based on contemporary technology, motion along a synthetic fourth dimension can be …

Observation of Bose–Einstein condensation in a strong synthetic magnetic field

CJ Kennedy, WC Burton, WC Chung, W Ketterle - Nature Physics, 2015 - nature.com
Extensions of Berry's phase and the quantum Hall effect have led to the discovery of new
states of matter with topological properties. Traditionally, this has been achieved using …

Prethermal floquet steady states and instabilities in the periodically driven, weakly interacting bose-hubbard model

M Bukov, S Gopalakrishnan, M Knap, E Demler - Physical review letters, 2015 - APS
We explore prethermal Floquet steady states and instabilities of the weakly interacting two-
dimensional Bose-Hubbard model subject to periodic driving. We develop a description of …

Scattering theory for Floquet-Bloch states

T Bilitewski, NR Cooper - Physical Review A, 2015 - APS
Motivated by recent experimental implementations of artificial gauge fields for gases of cold
atoms, we study the scattering properties of particles that are subjected to time-periodic …

Interaction dependent heating and atom loss in a periodically driven optical lattice

M Reitter, J Näger, K Wintersperger, C Sträter, I Bloch… - Physical review …, 2017 - APS
Periodic driving of optical lattices has enabled the creation of novel band structures not
realizable in static lattice systems, such as topological bands for neutral particles. However …

Periodically driven quantum matter: The case of resonant modulations

N Goldman, J Dalibard, M Aidelsburger, NR Cooper - Physical Review A, 2015 - APS
Quantum systems can show qualitatively new forms of behavior when they are driven by fast
time-periodic modulations. In the limit of large driving frequency, the long-time dynamics of …