Periodic driving of a system endows it with a temporal periodicity, much like crystal lattices that have a spatial periodicity. Yet, periodic driving yields a variety of tuning knobs which can in principle allow one to investigate physics that is difficult to access in any equilibrium system. Indeed, even though there is only one time dimension, one can even make the system equivalent to higher-dimensional spatial lattices. This project will explore some of the new physics that can emerge in periodically driven many-body quantum systems.
Supervisor: A/Prof. Meera Parish and Dr Jesper Levinsen
See https://www.monash.edu/science/schools/physics/honours/honours-project to apply.