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NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS
Volume 25, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/acd3a3
Keywords
superfluidity; flat band; Floquet engineering; quantum transport; cat states
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We theoretically investigate the superfluidity of a one-dimensional boson system with periodically modulated hopping energy. The system exhibits novel superfluid features such as a cat-like ground state and interference between the ground-state wave function components. The dynamics of this system is driven by correlations and described by exotic Hamiltonian and current operators. Calculation of the dynamic form factor reveals the presence of an acoustic mode that guarantees superfluidity in the thermodynamic limit.
We investigate theoretically the superfluidity of a one-dimensional boson system whose hopping energy is periodically modulated with a zero time average, which results in the suppression of first-order single-particle hopping processes. The dynamics of this Floquet-engineered flat-band system is entirely driven by correlations and described by exotic Hamiltonian and current operators. We employ exact diagonalization and compare our results with those of the conventional, undriven Bose-Hubbard system. We focus on the two main manifestations of superfluidity, the Hess-Fairbank effect and the metastability of supercurrents, with explicit inclusion of an impurity when relevant. Among the novel superfluid features, we highlight the presence of a cat-like ground state, with branches that have opposite crystal momentum but carry the same flux-dependent current, and the essential role of the interference between the collective components of the ground-state wave function. Calculation of the dynamic form factor reveals the presence of an acoustic mode that guarantees superfluidity in the thermodynamic limit.
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