Colloquium: Nonthermal pathways to ultrafast control in quantum materials

A De La Torre, DM Kennes, M Claassen, S Gerber… - Reviews of Modern …, 2021 - APS
Recent progress in utilizing ultrafast light-matter interaction to control the macroscopic
properties of quantum materials is reviewed. Particular emphasis is placed on photoinduced …

Band structure engineering and non-equilibrium dynamics in Floquet topological insulators

MS Rudner, NH Lindner - Nature reviews physics, 2020 - nature.com
Non-equilibrium topological phenomena can be induced in quantum many-body systems
using time-periodic fields (for example, by laser or microwave illumination). This Review …

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 …

Tailoring quantum gases by Floquet engineering

C Weitenberg, J Simonet - Nature Physics, 2021 - nature.com
Floquet engineering is the concept of tailoring a system by a periodic drive, and it is
increasingly employed in many areas of physics. Ultracold atoms in optical lattices offer a …

Realization of density-dependent Peierls phases to engineer quantized gauge fields coupled to ultracold matter

F Görg, K Sandholzer, J Minguzzi, R Desbuquois… - Nature Physics, 2019 - nature.com
Gauge fields that appear in models of high-energy and condensed-matter physics are
dynamical quantum degrees of freedom due to their coupling to matter fields. Since the …

[HTML][HTML] Quantum simulation of the Hubbard model with ultracold fermions in optical lattices

L Tarruell, L Sanchez-Palencia - Comptes Rendus Physique, 2018 - Elsevier
Ultracold atomic gases provide a fantastic platform to implement quantum simulators and
investigate a variety of models initially introduced in condensed matter physics or other …

Nagaoka ferromagnetism observed in a quantum dot plaquette

JP Dehollain, U Mukhopadhyay, VP Michal, Y Wang… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Engineered, highly controllable quantum systems are promising simulators of emergent
physics beyond the simulation capabilities of classical computers. An important problem in …

Observation of many-body Fock space dynamics in two dimensions

Y Yao, L Xiang, Z Guo, Z Bao, YF Yang, Z Song, H Shi… - Nature Physics, 2023 - nature.com
Quantum simulation provides platforms to study fundamental aspects of many-body physics
in a controlled way, and to explore their implications for quantum technology. However, the …

Floquet prethermalization in dipolar spin chains

P Peng, C Yin, X Huang, C Ramanathan… - Nature Physics, 2021 - nature.com
Periodically driven Floquet quantum systems could provide a promising platform to
investigate novel physics out of equilibrium, but the drive generically heats the system to a …

Geometric aspects of nonlinear and nonequilibrium phenomena

T Morimoto, S Kitamura, N Nagaosa - Journal of the Physical Society …, 2023 - journals.jps.jp
We review recent developments in the research of nonlinear and nonequilibrium
phenomena in solids focusing on their geometrical aspects. We start with introducing the …