Classification of Interacting Floquet Phases with U(1) Symmetry

ORAL

Abstract

Recently, it has become clear that periodically driven many-body systems can support new types of topological phases that have no counterpart in static systems. These anomalous Floquet topological phases have been studied for both interacting and non-interacting systems in different symmetry classes. In this talk, we consider interacting Floquet topological phases with U(1) charge conservation symmetry in two spatial dimensions. We propose a complete classification of Floquet phases of this kind, in the case where the Floquet eigenstates are short-range entangled, and we show that each phase can be labeled by a topological invariant which can be computed either at the edge of an open system or in the bulk. The latter formula provides a way to measure the invariant and also reveals a connection to the bulk magnetization density discussed in previous work.

*This work is supported by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program under Grant DGE-1746045 and the Simons Foundation through the “Ultra-Quantum Matter” Simons Collaboration.

Presenters

  • Carolyn Zhang

    • University of Chicago

Authors

  • Carolyn Zhang

    • University of Chicago
  • Michael Levin

    • University of Chicago