Nonlinear signatures of Floquet band topology
arXiv:2111.10229 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.105.115133
Abstract
We study how the nonlinear propagation dynamics of bulk states may be used to distinguish topological phases of slowly-driven Floquet lattices. First, we show how instabilities of nonlinear Bloch waves may be used to populate Floquet bands and measure their Chern number via the emergence of nontrivial polarization textures in a similar manner to static (undriven) lattices. Second, we show how the nonlinear dynamics of non-stationary superposition states may be used to identify dynamical symmetry inversion points in the intra-cycle dynamics, thereby allowing anomalous Floquet phases to be distinguished from the trivial phase. The approaches may be readily implemented using light propagation in nonlinear waveguide arrays.
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