# Floquet engineering to exotic topological phases in systems of cold atoms

## TL;DR

This paper proposes a periodic quenching scheme in cold-atom optical lattices to realize and control large-topological-number phases with multiple edge modes, offering a practical method to synthesize exotic topological states.

## Contribution

It introduces a novel periodic quenching approach to induce large-topological-number phases with multiple edge modes in cold-atom systems, overcoming realization challenges in solid-state setups.

## Key findings

- Large number of edge modes can be controllably induced.
- Periodic quenching effectively creates topological phases.
- Method is experimentally accessible and tunable.

## Abstract

Topological phases with a widely tunable number of edge modes have been extensively studied as a typical class of exotic states of matter with potentially important applications. Although several models have been shown to support such phases, they are not easy to realize in solid-state systems due to the complexity of various intervening factors. Inspired by the realization of synthetic spin-orbit coupling in a cold-atom system [Z. Wu {\it et al.}, Science \textbf{354}, 83 (2016)], we propose a periodic quenching scheme to realize large-topological-number phases with multiple edge modes in optical lattices. Via introducing the periodic quenching to the Raman lattice, it is found that a large number of edge modes can be induced in a controllable manner from the static topologically trivial system. Our result provides an experimentally accessible method to artificially synthesize and manipulate exotic topological phases with large topological numbers and multiple edge modes.