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Periodically driven systems, so-called Floquet systems, exhibit novel and exotic phases of matters inaccessible in static counterparts. The associated flexibility offered by Floquet engineering has helped gain insight into synthetic dimensions of quantum systems, non-equilibrium dynamics, and topology. Here, we apply the technique of Floquet engineering to the coherent dressing of spin states, aiming to provide a new dimension in the spin manipulation. We use an anti-relaxation coated Rb vapor cell interacting with a transverse radio-frequency magnetic field, which is resonant with the Larmor precession and excites the coherence between adjacent Zeeman sublevels. The narrow linewidth of the natural resonance promises the successful observation of a radio-frequency dressed spin state via electromagnetically induced transparency spectroscopy. In this configuration, we create a Floquet system by adding a longitudinal oscillating magnetic field to periodically drive Zeeman levels. We experimentally observe the Floquet engineered coherent dressing spectroscopy, featuring a series of sidebands in frequency space with weight factor in terms of Bessel function, as expected by our theoretical model. Our method can be applied to coherent dressed states of natural and artificial atoms, offering the possibilities of quantum bit control and quantum sensing.
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Nat Nanotechnol
September 2025
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Topological photonics explores photonic systems that exhibit robustness against defects and disorder, enabled by protection from underlying topological phases. These phases are typically realized in linear optical systems and characterized by their intrinsic photonic band structures. Here we experimentally study Floquet Chern insulators in periodically driven nonlinear photonic crystals, where the topological phase is controlled by the polarization and the frequency of the driving field.
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August 2025
Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Center for Free Electron Laser Science, 22761 Hamburg, Germany.
Optical selection rules endorsed by symmetry are crucial for understanding the optical properties of quantum materials and the associated ultrafast spectral phenomena. Here, we introduce momentum-resolved Floquet optical selection rules using group theory to elucidate the pump-probe photoemission spectral distributions of monolayer black phosphorus (BP), which are governed by the symmetries of both the material and the lasers. Using time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT), we further investigate the dynamical evolution of Floquet(-Volkov) states in the photoemission spectra of monolayer BP, revealing their spectral weights at specific momenta for each sideband.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis study aims to investigate dispersion engineering mechanisms within unilateral and bilateral metasurface-based leaky-wave antennas, presenting methodologies focused on space-time modulation of impedance boundary conditions. Utilizing the generalized framework based on the Floquet-wave expansion method, the research precisely investigates the effect of periodic space-time modulation on the dispersion characteristics of the leaky-wave antenna. The beam scanning mechanism has been investigated in the momentum and frequency domains.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPeriodically driven systems, so-called Floquet systems, exhibit novel and exotic phases of matters inaccessible in static counterparts. The associated flexibility offered by Floquet engineering has helped gain insight into synthetic dimensions of quantum systems, non-equilibrium dynamics, and topology. Here, we apply the technique of Floquet engineering to the coherent dressing of spin states, aiming to provide a new dimension in the spin manipulation.
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August 2025
College of Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha Hunan, 410073, China.
Floquet engineering, featuring time-periodic control of various systems, has enabled observations of many exotic phenomena such as time crystals, breaking of reciprocity symmetry, and exceptional topology. Theoretically, a periodic drive can make the system inherit the time period and generate new harmonics or distort the band structure at the fundamental frequency. Here, by combining such a technique with levitated optomechanics, we present an instructive example of a coherent acoustic frequency comb with microsphere phonon lasers.
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