Quasiperiodic Floquet-Thouless energy pump

TL;DR

This paper investigates the robustness of the topological Floquet-Thouless energy pump under quasiperiodic driving, showing quantized energy transfer persists at finite frequencies and identifying phase transitions linked to delocalization.

Contribution

It extends the understanding of topological energy pumps to quasiperiodic regimes, demonstrating their stability beyond adiabatic conditions and proposing a related cavity-qubit implementation.

Findings

Quantized energy pumping persists at finite incommensurate frequencies.

Topological phases are stable with localized states in disorder.

Phase transitions involve delocalization in position or energy space.

Abstract

Recent work [M. H. Kolodrubetz et al, PRL 120, 150601] has demonstrated that periodically driven one-dimensional fermionic systems can support quantized energy pumping resulting from an adiabatic modulation of a second parameter. In this work, we explore this topological Floquet-Thouless energy pump in the quasiperiodic driving regime where the parametric driving occurs at finite frequency. We show that quantization of energy pumping persists for finite ramping frequencies, as long as they are incommensurate with the driving frequency, and the system remains localized by spatial disorder. Thus, the topological Floquet-Thouless energy pump is stable beyond the adiabatic regime, occupying a finite region of parameter space. Phase transitions away from these topological phases are accompanied by delocalization in position space, photon number (energy) space, or both. Using a dimensional reduction scheme, we demonstrate that a related phase can be realized with a cavity-qubit system driven by two incommensurate modes.