Event
Condensed and Living Matter Seminar: "Adventures in Floquet synthetic dimensions: from topological energy pumping to majorana multiplexing"
Gil Rephael (California Institute of Technology)
Periodic drives can effectively change the dimensionality of the system, and give rise to new phenomena. In my talk I will first show how such drives could be used to make a single spin reproduce the physics of 2d topological insulators. I will then share new insights regarding how to control the potential landscape in the synthetic directions, and, finally, show how one can pile majorana states on top of each other, without losing their topological degeneracy.