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arXiv:1808.00506 · Physical Review Letters

Floquet Dynamics in Driven Fermi-Hubbard Systems

Michael Messer, Kilian Sandholzer, Frederik Görg, Joaquín Minguzzi, Rémi Desbuquois, Tilman Esslinger

Published Dec 7, 2018• 83 citations
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Abstract

We study the dynamics and timescales of a periodically driven Fermi-Hubbard model in a three-dimensional hexagonal lattice. The evolution of the Floquet many-body state is analyzed by comparing it to an equivalent implementation in undriven systems. The dynamics of double occupancies for the near- and off-resonant driving regime indicate that the effective Hamiltonian picture is valid for several orders of magnitude in modulation time. Furthermore, we show that driving a hexagonal lattice compared to a simple cubic lattice allows us to modulate the system up to 1 s, corresponding to hundreds of tunneling times, with only minor atom loss. Here, driving at a frequency close to the interaction energy does not introduce resonant features to the atom loss.

DOI
10.1103/physrevlett.121.233603

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