Energy dynamics, heat production and heat–work conversion with qubits: toward the development of quantum machines

L Arrachea - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We present an overview of recent advances in the study of energy dynamics and
mechanisms for energy conversion in qubit systems with special focus on realizations in …

Non-Abelian Thouless pumping in photonic waveguides

YK Sun, XL Zhang, F Yu, ZN Tian, QD Chen, HB Sun - Nature Physics, 2022 - nature.com
Thouless pumping enables topological transport and the direct measurement of topological
invariants. So far, realizations of Thouless pumping rely on the adiabatic evolution of a …

Fast topological pumps via quantum metric engineering on photonic chips

W Song, O You, J Sun, S Wu, C Chen, C Huang… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Topological pumps have garnered substantial attention in physics. However, the
requirement for slow evolution speed to satisfy adiabaticity greatly restricts their application …

Observation of non-Abelian Thouless pump

O You, S Liang, B Xie, W Gao, W Ye, J Zhu, S Zhang - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
Thouless pump provides robust ways to realize quantized transport of waves and particles,
and it casts the static 2D quantum Hall effect onto 1D dynamic systems where one of the …

Quantized topological anderson-thouless pump

YP Wu, LZ Tang, GQ Zhang, DW Zhang - Physical Review A, 2022 - APS
We propose counterintuitive topological pumps induced by disorder in noninteracting and
interacting systems. We show an extrinsic topological pump driven by the on-site …

Floquet analysis of excitations in materials

UD Giovannini, H Hübener - Journal of Physics: Materials, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Controlled excitation of materials can transiently induce changed or novel properties with
many fundamental and technological implications. Especially, the concept of Floquet …

Robust temporal pumping in a magneto-mechanical topological insulator

IH Grinberg, M Lin, C Harris, WA Benalcazar… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The transport of energy through 1-dimensional (1D) waveguiding channels can be affected
by sub-wavelength disorder, resulting in undesirable localization and backscattering …

Realizing efficient topological temporal pumping in electrical circuits

A Stegmaier, H Brand, S Imhof, A Fritzsche… - Physical Review …, 2024 - APS
Quantized adiabatic transport can occur when a system is slowly modulated over time. In
most realizations, however, the efficiency of such transport is reduced by unwanted …

Time crystals protected by floquet dynamical symmetry in hubbard models

K Chinzei, TN Ikeda - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
We investigate an unconventional symmetry in time-periodically driven systems, the Floquet
dynamical symmetry (FDS). Unlike the usual symmetries, the FDS gives symmetry sectors …

Floquet superradiance lattices in thermal atoms

X Xu, J Wang, J Dai, R Mao, H Cai, SY Zhu… - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
Floquet modulation has been widely used in optical lattices for coherent control of quantum
gases, in particular for synthesizing artificial gauge fields and simulating topological matters …