Floquet engineering topological many-body localized systems

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates how second-order Floquet engineering can create systems where many-body localization and topological properties coexist, enabling dynamic control of topologically protected qubits at high energies.

Contribution

It introduces a method to simulate effective three-body interactions using only two-body interactions through Floquet engineering, combining topology, disorder, and localization.

Findings

Successful simulation of three-body interactions with two-body interactions.

Coexistence of topology and disorder in driven systems.

Protection of qubits via topological and localization effects.

Abstract

We show how second-order Floquet engineering can be employed to realize systems in which many-body localization coexists with topological properties in a driven system. This allows one to implement and dynamically control a topologically-protected qubit even at high energies. Floquet engineering - the idea that a periodically driven non-equilibrium system can effectively emulate the physics of a different Hamiltonian - is used to simulate an ffective three-body interaction among spins in one dimension, using time-dependent two-body interactions only. In the effective system emulated topology and disorder coexist which provides an intriguing inroad into the interplay of many-body localization, defying our standard understanding of thermodynamics, and topological phases of matter, which are of fundamental and technological importance. We demonstrate explicitly how combining Floquet engineering, topology and many-body localization allows one to harvest the advantages (time-dependent control, topological protection and reduction of heating, respectively) of each of these sub-fields while protecting from their disadvantages (heating, static control parameters and strong disorder).