Topological Bloch oscillations

Abstract

Bloch oscillations originate from the translational symmetry of crystals. These oscillations occur with a fundamental period that a semiclassical wavepacket takes to traverse a Brillouin-zone loop. We introduce a new type of Bloch oscillations whose periodicity is an integer ($\mu >1$) multiple of the fundamental period. The period multiplier $\mu$ is a topological invariant protected by the space groups of crystals, which include more than just translational symmetries. For example, $\mu$ divides $n$ for crystals with an $n$-fold rotational or screw symmetry; with a reflection, inversion or glide symmetry, $\mu$ equals two. We identify the commonality underlying all period-multiplied oscillations: the multi-band Berry-Zak phases, which encode the holonomy of adiabatic transport of Bloch functions in quasimomentum space, differ pairwise by integer multiples of $2\pi /\mu$. For a class of multi-band subspaces whose projected-position operators commute, period multiplication has a complementary explanation through the real space distribution of Wannier functions. This complementarity follows from a one-to-one correspondence between Berry-Zak phases and the centers of Wannier functions. A Wannier description of period multiplication does not always exist, as we exemplify with band subspaces with either a nonzero Chern number or ${\mathbb{Z}}_2$ Kane-Mele topological order. To help identify band subspaces with $\mu >1$, a general theorem is presented that outputs Zak phases that are symmetry-protected to integer multiples of $2\pi /n$, given the point-group symmetry representation of any gapped band subspace. A cold-atomic experiment that has observed period-multiplied Bloch oscillations is discussed, and directions are provided for future experiments.

arXiv comment27 pages main text, 12 pages appendix, 26 pages of (single-column) supplementary material for beginners; published version

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