We derive a systematic high-frequency expansion for the effective Hamiltonian and the micromotion operator of periodically driven quantum systems. Our approach is based on the block diagonalization of the quasienergy operator in the extended Floquet Hilbert space by means of degenerate perturbation theory. The final results are equivalent to those obtained within a different approach (Rahav et al 2003 Phys. Rev. A 68 013820), (Goldman and Dalibard 2014 Phys. Rev. X 4 031027) and can also be related to the Floquet-Magnus expansion (Casas et al 2001 J. Phys. A 34 3379). We discuss that the dependence on the driving phase, which plagues the latter, can lead to artifactual symmetry breaking. The high-frequency approach is illustrated using the example of a periodically driven Hubbard model. Moreover, we discuss the nature of the approximation and its limitations for systems of many interacting particles.
We present a theoretical treatment of four two-dimensional electrons in a harmonic confinement potential in the presence of an external magnetic field using the exact diagonalization approach. The ground state properties and the spin and angular momentum transitions for different electron interaction strengths and magnetic fields are obtained. A magnetic field-confinement strength phase diagram is presented indicating a rich variety of ground states. An interesting feature of this system is the depolarization of spins by application of a magnetic field. The results are compared to several approximate theories.
We consider a quantum system periodically driven with a strength which varies
slowly on the scale of the driving period. The analysis is based on a general
formulation of the Floquet theory relying on the extended Hilbert space. It is
shown that the dynamics of the system can be described in terms of a slowly
varying effective Floquet Hamiltonian that captures the long-term evolution, as
well as rapidly oscillating micromotion operators. We obtain a systematic
high-frequency expansion of all these operators. Generalizing the previous
studies, the expanded effective Hamiltonian is now time-dependent and contains
extra terms appearing due to changes in the periodic driving. The same applies
to the micromotion operators which exhibit a slow temporal dependence in
addition to the rapid oscillations. As an illustration, we consider a
quantum-mechanical spin in an oscillating magnetic field with a slowly changing
direction. The effective evolution of the spin is then associated with
non-Abelian geometric phases reflecting the geometry of the extended Floquet
space. The developed formalism is general and also applies to other
periodically driven systems, such as shaken optical lattices with a
time-dependent shaking strength, a situation relevant to the cold atom
experiments.Comment: already published pape
Fractional Chern insulators are the proposed phases of matter mimicking the physics of fractional quantum Hall states on a lattice without an overall magnetic field. The notion of Floquet fractional Chern insulators refers to the potential possibilities to generate the underlying topological bandstructure by means of Floquet engineering. In these schemes, a highly controllable and strongly interacting system is periodically driven by an external force at a frequency such that double tunneling events during one forcing period become important and contribute to shaping the required effective energy bands. We show that in the described circumstances it is necessary to take into account also third order processes combining two tunneling events with interactions. Referring to the obtained contributions as micromotion-induced interactions, we find that those interactions tend to have a negative impact on the stability of fractional Chern insulating phases and discuss implications for future experiments.
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