arXiv · 2410.10959
Topological anomalous Floquet photon pump
Abstract
There is a close theoretical connection between topological Floquet physics and cavity QED, yet this connection has not been realized experimentally due to complicated cavity QED models that often arise. We propose a simple, experimentally viable protocol to realize non-adiabatic topological photon pumping mediated by a single qubit, which we dub the anomalous Floquet photon pump. For both quantized photons and external drive, the system exhibits a non-trivial topological phase across a broad range of parameter space. Transitions out of the topological phase result from frequency-space delocalization. Finally, we argue that the protocol can be implemented in existing experiments via driven qubit non-linearities, with topological pumping witnessed in measurements of the cavity Wigner distribution functions.
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Manshuo Lin, Saeed Rahmanian Koshkaki, Mohsen Yarmohammadi, Michael H. Kolodrubetz. 2024-10-14. Topological anomalous Floquet photon pump. https://doi.org/10.1103/dhxg-zw1p
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