Floquet engineering with spatially nonuniform driving fields

Stella T. Schindler, Hanan Herzig Sheinfux

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Abstract

In Floquet engineering, we apply a time-periodic modulation to change the effective behavior of a wave system. In this work, we generalize Floquet engineering to more fully exploit spatial degrees of freedom, expanding the scope of effective behaviors we can access. We develop a perturbative procedure to engineer space-time dependent driving forces that effectively transform broad classes of tight-binding systems into one another. We demonstrate several applications, including removing disorder, undoing Anderson localization, and enhancing localization to an extreme in spatially modulated waveguides. This procedure straightforwardly extends to other types of physical systems and different Floquet driving field implementations.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)905-914
Number of pages10
JournalPhotonics Research
Volume13
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 2025

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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