Engineering and Probing Non-Abelian Chiral Spin Liquids Using Periodically Driven Ultracold Atoms

• Published in: PRX quantum Vol. 4; no. 2; p. 020329
• Main Authors: Sun, Bo-Ye, Goldman, Nathan, Aidelsburger, Monika, Bukov, Marin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: American Physical Society 01.05.2023

We propose a scheme to implement Kitaev’s honeycomb model with cold atoms, based on a periodic (Floquet) drive, in view of realizing and probing non-Abelian chiral spin liquids using quantum simulators. We derive the effective Hamiltonian to leading order in the inverse-frequency expansion, and show...