Floquet Quantum Spin Hall Insulator in Cold Atomic Systems
arXiv:1406.5087 · doi:10.1038/srep16197
Abstract
For cold atomic systems, varying the optical lattice potential periodically provides a general and simple way to drive the system into phases with nontrivial topology. Besides its simplicity, this driving approach, compared to the usual driving approach by exerting an external electromagnetic field to the static system, has the merit that it does not break the original static system's time-reversal symmetry at any given time. Based on this approach, we find that a trivial insulator with time-reversal symmetry can be driven into a Floquet quantum spin Hall insulator. This novel state of matter can stably host one or two pair of gapless helical states on the same boundary, which suggests this state is not a simple analog of the quantum spin Hall insulator. The effect of a time-reversal-symmetry-breaking periodic perturbation, the stability of the novel states, and this new driving approach to a system without time-reversal symmetry are discussed.
5 pages, 4 figures
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