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 …

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 …

Topological quantum matter with cold atoms

DW Zhang, YQ Zhu, YX Zhao, H Yan… - Advances in Physics, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
This is an introductory review of the physics of topological quantum matter with cold atoms.
Topological quantum phases, originally discovered and investigated in condensed matter …

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 …

Realizing a 1D topological gauge theory in an optically dressed BEC

A Frölian, CS Chisholm, E Neri, CR Cabrera, R Ramos… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Topological gauge theories describe the low-energy properties of certain strongly correlated
quantum systems through effective weakly interacting models,. A prime example is the …

Floquet approach to ℤ2 lattice gauge theories with ultracold atoms in optical lattices

C Schweizer, F Grusdt, M Berngruber, L Barbiero… - Nature Physics, 2019 - nature.com
Quantum simulation has the potential to investigate gauge theories in strongly interacting
regimes, which are currently inaccessible through conventional numerical techniques. Here …

Coupling ultracold matter to dynamical gauge fields in optical lattices: From flux attachment to ℤ2 lattice gauge theories

L Barbiero, C Schweizer, M Aidelsburger, E Demler… - Science …, 2019 - science.org
From the standard model of particle physics to strongly correlated electrons, various physical
settings are formulated in terms of matter coupled to gauge fields. Quantum simulations …

Dynamical suppression of many-body non-Hermitian skin effect in anyonic systems

Y Qin, CH Lee, L Li - Communications Physics, 2025 - nature.com
The non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) is a fascinating phenomenon in nonequilibrium
systems where eigenstates massively localize at the systems' boundaries, pumping (quasi-) …

Realization of one-dimensional anyons with arbitrary statistical phase

J Kwan, P Segura, Y Li, S Kim, AV Gorshkov, A Eckardt… - Science, 2024 - science.org
Low-dimensional quantum systems can host anyons, particles with exchange statistics that
are neither bosonic nor fermionic. However, the physics of anyons in one dimension …

Observation of density-dependent gauge fields in a Bose-Einstein condensate based on micromotion control in a shaken two-dimensional lattice

LW Clark, BM Anderson, L Feng, A Gaj, K Levin… - Physical review …, 2018 - APS
We demonstrate a density-dependent gauge field, induced by atomic interactions, for
quantum gases. The gauge field results from the synchronous coupling between the …