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Mark S. Rudner

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Self-organized Floquet band geometry in cavity-driven quantum materials

Floquet engineering has emerged as a powerful route to dynamically control band structure and topology in quantum materials, but most implementations rely on externally imposed laser fields that are power intensive, difficult to integrate into devices, and weakly coupled to the electronic system. We propose and analyze an alternative paradigm in which a self-generated cavity field Floquet-dresses the electronic bands and produces a geometric Hall response in an electrically driven cavity material system. We consider a semiconductor layer embedded in a cavity and coupled to external leads and a bath of acoustic phonons, where dc pumping leads to the buildup of a coherent intracavity field through light-matter coupling. We determine the resulting nonequilibrium steady state self-consistently and show that, above threshold, the coupled system settles into a stable time-periodic limit cycle with a field amplitude set by the cavity quality factor and dissipation. This emergent periodic field Floquet-dresses the electronic bands and modifies the anomalous Hall response of a material with broken time-reversal symmetry. We demonstrate that the resulting Hall conductivity can be directly probed via in-plane dc transport measurements. Our work establishes a route to self organized Floquet band reconstruction and geometric transport without external laser illumination, highlighting cavity driven steady states as a platform for electrically controlled nonequilibrium phases.

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Vari-Cool: a non-unitary quantum variational protocol for simulated cooling

We introduce a variational approach for preparing low energy states of arbitrary target Hamiltonians. The protocol is defined in terms of a repeated cycle consisting of p layers of unitary gates applied to the system and ancilla "bath" qubits, followed by reset of the bath qubits. The gate parameters within each cycle are optimized such that the steady state achieved after many cycles has a low energy expectation value with respect to the target Hamiltonian, and that the energy converges toward the steady state value in as few cycles as possible. We illustrate the protocol for the transverse field Ising model, and study its systematic behaviors with respect to system size, model parameters, and noise using tensor network based classical simulations. We then experimentally demonstrate its operation on IBM's ibm_kingston quantum processor for up to 28 system qubits coupled to 14 bath sites. Classical training on small system sizes and with few unitary layers per cycle gives robust results that transfer well to larger system sizes and to noisy hardware.

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Exciting terahertz magnons with amplitude modulated light: spin pumping, squeezed states, symmetry breaking and pattern formation

We show how amplitude modulated, coherent high-frequency drives can be used to access otherwise difficult to reach collective resonances and off-resonantly induce parametric instabilities. In particular, we demonstrate that difficult to access antiferromagnetic resonances in the THz range can be parametrically excited with signals at optical frequencies via a mechanism that we call Modulated Floquet Parametric Driving (MFPD). We study spin pumping and the formation of entangled, two-mode squeezed magnon pairs in anisotropic antiferromagnets under MFPD. Furthermore, we show that MFPD induces transitions to symmetry breaking steady-states in which dynamical spin patterns are formed by resonant magnon pairs.

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Efficiently preparing chiral states via fermionic cooling on bosonic quantum hardware

Simulating many-body systems is one of the most promising applications of near-term quantum computers. An important open question is how to efficiently prepare the ground states of arbitrary fermionic Hamiltonians, especially those with nontrivial topology. Here, we propose an efficient protocol for preparing low-energy states of fermionic Hamiltonians on a noisy bosonic quantum simulator by adiabatic cooling using a simulated bath. We arrange the couplings such that the simulated system and bath together obtain a local fermionic description in which fermionic excitations can be extracted individually, via coherent hopping to the bath, rather than in pairs as would otherwise be required by fermion parity conservation. This approach thus achieves a linear (rather than quadratic) scaling of the cooling rate vs. excitation density at low densities. We show that certain topological phases such as the chiral (non-Abelian) phase of the Kitaev honeycomb model can be prepared efficiently using our protocol. Our protocol performs favorably in the presence of noise, making it suitable for execution on near-term quantum devices.

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Gauged cooling of topological excitations and emergent fermions on quantum simulators

Simulated cooling is a robust method for preparing low-energy states of many-body Hamiltonians on near-term quantum simulators. In such schemes, a subset of the simulator's spins (or qubits) are treated as a ``bath,'' which extracts energy and entropy from the system of interest. However, such protocols are inefficient when applied to systems whose excitations are highly non-local in terms of the microscopic degrees of freedom, such as topological phases of matter; such excitations are difficult to extract by a local coupling to a bath. We explore a route to overcome this obstacle by encoding of the microscopic degrees of freedom into those of the quantum simulator in a non-local manner. To illustrate the approach, we show how to efficiently cool the ferromagnetic phase of the quantum Ising model, whose excitations are domain walls, via a ``gauged cooling'' protocol in which the Ising spins are coupled to a $Z_2$ gauge field that simultaneously acts as a reservoir for removing excitations. We show that our protocol can prepare the ground states of the ferromagnetic and paramagnetic phases equally efficiently. The gauged cooling protocol naturally extends to (interacting) fermionic systems, where it is equivalent to cooling by coupling to a fermionic bath via single-fermion hopping.

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Inducing exceptional points, enhancing plasmon quality and creating correlated plasmon states with modulated Floquet parametric driving

We propose a method to parametrically excite low frequency collective modes in an interacting many body system using a Floquet driving at optical frequencies with a modulated amplitude. We demonstrate that it can be used to design plasmonic time-varying media with singular dispersions. Plasmons near resonance with half the modulation frequency exhibit two lines of exceptional points connected by dispersionless states. Above a critical driving strength, resonant plasmon modes become unstable and undergo a continuous transition towards a crystal-like structure stabilized by interactions and nonlinearities. This new state breaks the discrete time translational symmetry of the drive as well as the translational and rotational spatial symmetries of the system and exhibits soft, Goldstone-like phononic excitations. Below the instability threshold, our method can be used to enhance the quality of plasmon resonances.

cond-mat.str-el

Quantifying the accuracy of steady states obtained from the Universal Lindblad Equation

We show that steady-state expectation values predicted by the universal Lindblad equation (ULE) are accurate up to bounded corrections that scale linearly with the effective system-bath coupling, $Γ$ (second order in the microscopic coupling). We also identify a near-identity, quasilocal "memory-dressing" transformation, used during the derivation of the ULE, whose inverse can be applied to achieve relative deviations of observables that generically scale to zero with $Γ$, even for nonequilibrium currents whose steady-state values themselves scale to zero with $Γ$. This result provides a solution to recently identified limitations on the accuracy of Lindblad equations, which highlighted a potential for significant relative errors in currents of conserved quantities. The transformation we identify allows for high-fidelity computation of currents in the weak-coupling regime, ensuring thermodynamic consistency and local conservation laws, while retaining the stability and physicality of a Lindblad-form master equation.

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Achieving quantized transport in Floquet topological insulators via energy filters

Due to photon-assisted transport processes, chiral edge modes induced by periodic driving do not directly mediate quantized transport. Here we show how narrow bandwidth "energy filters" can restore quantization by suppressing photon assisted transport through Floquet sidebands. We derive a Floquet Landauer type equation to describe transport through such an energy-filtered setup, and show how the filter can be integrated out to yield a sharply energy-dependent renormalized system-lead coupling. We show analytically and through numerical simulations that a nearly quantized conductance can be achieved in both off-resonantly and resonantly induced quasienergy gaps when filters are introduced. The conductance approaches the appropriate quantized value on each plateau with increasing system and filter size. We introduce a "Floquet distribution function" and show both analytically and numerically that it approaches the equilibrium Fermi-Dirac form when narrow-band filters are introduced, highlighting the mechanism that restores quantized transport.

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Anti-screening and nonequilibrium layer electric phases in graphene multilayers

Screening is a ubiquitous phenomenon through which the polarization of bound or mobile charges tends to reduce the strengths of electric fields inside materials. Here we show how photoexcitation can be used as a knob to transform conventional out-of-plane screening into anti-screening - the amplification of electric fields - in multilayer graphene stacks. We find that, by varying the photoexcitation intensity, multiple nonequilibrium screening regimes can be accessed, including near-zero screening, anti-screening, or overscreening (reversing electric fields). Strikingly, at modest continuous wave photoexcitation intensities, the nonequilibrium polarization states become multistable, hosting light-induced ferroelectric-like steady states with nonvanishing out-of-plane polarization (and band gaps) even in the absence of an externally applied displacement field in nominally inversion symmetric stacks. This rich phenomenology reveals a novel paradigm of dynamical quantum matter that we expect will enable a variety of nonequilibrium broken symmetry phases.

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Quantum plasmonic non-reciprocity in parity-violating magnets

The optical responses of metals are often dominated by plasmonic resonances - the collective oscillations of interacting electron liquids. Here we unveil a new class of plasmons - quantum metric plasmons (QMPs) - that arise in a wide range of parity violating magnetic metals. In these materials, a dipolar distribution of the quantum metric (a fundamental characteristic of Bloch wavefunctions) produces intrinsic non-reciprocal bulk plasmons. Strikingly, QMP non-reciprocity manifests even when the single-particle dispersion is symmetric: QMPs are sensitive to time-reversal and parity violations hidden in the Bloch wavefunction. In materials with asymmetric single-particle dispersions, quantum metric dipole induced non-reciprocity can continue to dominate at large frequencies. We anticipate that QMPs can be realized in a wide range of parity violating magnets, including twisted bilayer graphene heterostructures, where quantum geometric quantities can achieve large values.

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Correlated insulating states in carbon nanotubes controlled by magnetic field

We investigate competing insulating phases in nearly metallic zigzag carbon nanotubes, under conditions where an applied magnetic flux approximately closes the single particle gap in one valley. Recent experiments have shown that an energy gap persists throughout magnetic field sweeps where the single-particle picture predicts that the gap should close and reopen. Using a bosonic low-energy effective theory to describe the interplay between electron-electron interactions, spin-orbit coupling, and magnetic field, we obtain a phase diagram consisting of several competing insulating phases that can form in the vicinity of the single-particle gap closing point. We characterize these phases in terms of spin-resolved charge polarization densities, each of which can independently take one of two possible values consistent with the mirror symmetry of the system, or can take an intermediate value through a spontaneous mirror symmetry breaking transition. In the mirror symmetry breaking phase, adiabatic changes of the orbital magnetic flux drive charge and spin currents along the nanotube. We discuss the relevance of these results to recent and future experiments.

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Anomalous Random Multipolar Driven Insulators

It is by now well established that periodically driven quantum many-body systems can realize topological nonequilibrium phases without any equilibrium counterpart. Here we show that, even in the absence of time translation symmetry, nonequilibrium topological phases of matter can exist in aperiodically driven systems for tunably parametrically long prethermal lifetimes. As a prerequisite, we first demonstrate the existence of longlived prethermal Anderson localization in two dimensions under random multipolar driving. We then show that the localization may be topologically nontrivial with a quantized bulk orbital magnetization even though there are no well-defined Floquet operators. We further confirm the existence of this anomalous random multipolar driven insulator by detecting quantized charge pumping at the boundaries, which renders it experimentally observable.

cond-mat.dis-nn

Prethermalization and entanglement dynamics in interacting topological pumps

We investigate the formation of quasisteady states in one-dimensional pumps of interacting fermions at non-integer filling fraction, in the regime where the driving frequency and interaction strength are small compared to the instantaneous single-particle band gap throughout the driving cycle. The system rapidly absorbs energy from the driving field, and approaches a quasisteady state that locally resembles a maximal entropy state subject to the constraint of fixed particle number in each of the system's single-particle Floquet bands. We explore the nature of this quasisteady state through one-body observables including the pumped current and natural orbital occupations, as well as the (many-body) entanglement spectrum and entropy. Potential disorder significantly reduces the amplitude of fluctuations of the quasisteady state current around its universal value, while the lifetime of the quasisteady state remains nearly unaffected for disorder strengths up to the scale of the single-particle band gap. Interestingly, the natural orbital occupations and entanglement entropy display patterns signifying the periodic entangling and disentangling of the system's degrees of freedom over each driving cycle. Moreover, prominent features in the system's time-dependent entanglement spectrum reveal the emergence of new long timescales associated with the equilibration of many-particle correlations.

cond-mat.quant-gas

Universal transport in periodically driven systems without long-lived quasiparticles

An intriguing regime of universal charge transport at high entropy density has been proposed for periodically driven interacting one-dimensional systems with Bloch bands separated by a large single-particle band gap. For weak interactions, a simple picture based on well-defined Floquet quasiparticles suggests that the system should host a quasisteady state current that depends only on the populations of the system's Floquet-Bloch bands and their associated quasienergy winding numbers. Here we show that such topological transport persists into the strongly interacting regime where the single-particle lifetime becomes shorter than the drive period. Analytically, we show that the value of the current is insensitive to interaction-induced band renormalizations and lifetime broadening when certain conditions are met by the system's non-equilibrium distribution function. We show that these conditions correspond to a quasisteady state. We support these predictions through numerical simulation of a system of strongly interacting fermions in a periodically-modulated chain of Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev dots. Our work establishes universal transport at high entropy density as a robust far from equilibrium topological phenomenon, which can be readily realized with cold atoms in optical lattices.

cond-mat.quant-gas

Quasiperiodic Floquet-Thouless energy pump

Recent work [M. H. Kolodrubetz et al, PRL 120, 150601] has demonstrated that periodically driven one-dimensional fermionic systems can support quantized energy pumping resulting from an adiabatic modulation of a second parameter. In this work, we explore this topological Floquet-Thouless energy pump in the quasiperiodic driving regime where the parametric driving occurs at finite frequency. We show that quantization of energy pumping persists for finite ramping frequencies, as long as they are incommensurate with the driving frequency, and the system remains localized by spatial disorder. Thus, the topological Floquet-Thouless energy pump is stable beyond the adiabatic regime, occupying a finite region of parameter space. Phase transitions away from these topological phases are accompanied by delocalization in position space, photon number (energy) space, or both. Using a dimensional reduction scheme, we demonstrate that a related phase can be realized with a cavity-qubit system driven by two incommensurate modes.

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Hierarchy of many-body invariants and quantized magnetization in anomalous Floquet insulators

We uncover a new family of few-body topological phases in periodically driven fermionic systems in two dimensions. These phases, which we term correlation-induced anomalous Floquet insulators (CIAFIs), are characterized by quantized contributions to the bulk magnetization from multi-particle correlations, and are classified by a family of integer-valued topological invariants. The CIAFI phases do not require many-body localization, but arise in the generic situation of k-particle localization, where the system is localized (due to disorder) for any finite number of particles up to a maximum number, k. We moreover show that, when fully many-body localized, periodically driven systems of interacting fermions in two dimensions are characterized by a quantized magnetization in the bulk, thus confirming the quantization of magnetization of the anomalous Floquet insulator. We demonstrate our results with numerical simulations.

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Spin-polarized superconductivity: order parameter topology, current dissipation, and multiple-period Josephson effect

We discuss transport properties of fully spin-polarized triplet superconductors, where only electrons of one spin component (along a certain axis) are paired. Due to the structure of the order parameter space, wherein phase and spin rotations are intertwined, a configuration where the superconducting phase winds by $4π$ in space is topologically equivalent to a configuration with no phase winding. This opens the possibility of supercurrent relaxation by a smooth deformation of the order parameter, where the order parameter remains non-zero at any point in space throughout the entire process. During the process, a spin texture is formed. We discuss the conditions for such processes to occur and their physical consequences. In particular, we show that when a voltage is applied, they lead to an unusual alternating-current Josephson effect whose period is an integer multiple of the usual Josephson period. These conclusions are substantiated in a simple time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau model for the dynamics of the order parameter. One of the potential applications of our analysis is for moiré systems, such as twisted bilayer and double bilayer graphene, where superconductivity is found in the vicinity of ferromagnetism.

cond-mat.supr-con

Quantum frequency locking and down-conversion in a driven cavity-qubit system

We study a periodically driven qubit coupled to a quantized cavity mode. Despite its apparent simplicity, this system supports a rich variety of exotic phenomena, such as topological frequency conversion as recently discovered in [Martin et al, PRX 7, 041008 (2017)]. Here we report on a qualitatively different phenomenon that occurs in this platform, where the cavity mode's oscillations lock their frequency to a rational fraction $r/q$ of the driving frequency $Ω$. This phenomenon, which we term quantum frequency locking, is characterized by the emergence of $q$-tuplets of stationary (Floquet) states whose quasienergies are separated by $Ω/q$, up to exponentially small corrections. The Wigner functions of these states are nearly identical, and exhibit highly-regular and symmetric structure in phase space. Similarly to Floquet time crystals, these states underlie discrete time-translation symmetry breaking in the model. We develop a semiclassical approach for analyzing and predicting quantum frequency locking in the model, and use it to identify the conditions under which it occurs.

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