56 research outputs found
Topological Transitions for Lattice Bosons in a Magnetic Field
We study the Hall response of the Bose-Hubbard model subjected to a magnetic
field. We show that the Hall conductivity is proportional to the particle
density plus an integer. The phase diagram is intersected by topological
transitions between different integer values. These transitions originate from
points in the phase diagram with effective charge conjugation symmetry, and are
attributed to degeneracies in the many body spectrum which serve as sources for
the Berry curvature. We find that extensive regions in the phase diagram
exhibit a negative Hall conductivity, implying that flux flow is reversed in
these regions - vortices there flow upstream. We discuss experimental
implications of our findings.Comment: 11 pages, 7 figure
Driving induced many-body localization
Subjecting a many-body localized system to a time-periodic drive generically
leads to delocalization and a transition to ergodic behavior if the drive is
sufficiently strong or of sufficiently low frequency. Here we show that a
specific drive can have an opposite effect, taking a static delocalized system
into the many-body localized phase. We demonstrate this effect using a
one-dimensional system of interacting hardcore bosons subject to an oscillating
linear potential. The system is weakly disordered, and is ergodic absent the
driving. The time-periodic linear potential leads to a suppression of the
effective static hopping amplitude, increasing the relative strengths of
disorder and interactions. Using numerical simulations, we find a transition
into the many-body localized phase above a critical driving frequency and in a
range of driving amplitudes. Our findings highlight the potential of driving
schemes exploiting the coherent suppression of tunneling for engineering
long-lived Floquet phases.Comment: 9 pages, 9 figure
Disorder induced transitions in resonantly driven Floquet Topological Insulators
We investigate the effects of disorder in Floquet topological insulators
(FTIs) occurring in semiconductor quantum wells. Such FTIs are induced by
resonantly driving a transition between the valence and conduction band. We
show that when disorder is added, the topological nature of such FTIs persists
as long as there is a mobility gap at the resonant quasi-energy. For strong
enough disorder, this gap closes and all the states become localized as the
system undergoes a transition to a trivial insulator. Interestingly, the
effects of disorder are not necessarily adverse: we show that in the same
quantum well, disorder can also induce a transition from a trivial to a
topological system, thereby establishing a Floquet Topological Anderson
Insulator (FTAI). We identify the conditions on the driving field necessary for
observing such a transition.Comment: 18 pages, 13 figure
Elliptic Rydberg states as direction indicators
The orientation in space of a Cartesian coordinate system can be indicated by
the two vectorial constants of motion of a classical Keplerian orbit: the
angular momentum and the Laplace-Runge-Lenz vector. In quantum mechanics, the
states of a hydrogen atom that mimic classical elliptic orbits are the coherent
states of the SO(4) rotation group.It is known how to produce these states
experimentally. They have minimal dispersions of the two conserved vectors and
can be used as direction indicators. We compare the fidelity of this
transmission method with that of the idealized optimal method
Quantized large-bias current in the anomalous Floquet-Anderson insulator
We study two-terminal transport through two-dimensional periodically driven
systems in which all bulk Floquet eigenstates are localized by disorder. We
focus on the Anomalous Floquet-Anderson Insulator (AFAI) phase, a
topologically-nontrivial phase within this class, which hosts topologically
protected chiral edge modes coexisting with its fully localized bulk. We show
that the unique properties of the AFAI yield remarkable far-from-equilibrium
transport signatures: for a large bias between leads, a quantized amount of
charge is transported through the system each driving period. Upon increasing
the bias, the chiral Floquet edge mode connecting source to drain becomes fully
occupied and the current rapidly approaches its quantized value.Comment: 5+ pages; to appear in PRB(R
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