DOE OSTI · 2556813
Floquet engineering with spatially nonuniform driving fields
Abstract
In Floquet engineering, we apply a time-periodic modulation to change the effective behavior of a wave system. In this work, we generalize Floquet engineering to more fully exploit spatial degrees of freedom, expanding the scope of effective behaviors we can access. We develop a perturbative procedure to engineer space-time dependent driving forces that effectively transform broad classes of tight-binding systems into one another. We demonstrate several applications, including removing disorder, undoing Anderson localization, and enhancing localization to an extreme in spatially modulated waveguides. This procedure straightforwardly extends to other types of physical systems and different Floquet driving field implementations.
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Schindler, Stella T. [Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)], Sheinfux, Hanan Herzig [Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan (Israel)]. 2025-04-01. Floquet engineering with spatially nonuniform driving fields. https://doi.org/10.1364/prj.545282
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