Floquet engineering with spatially nonuniform driving fields

Stella T. Schindler; Hanan Herzig Sheinfux

doi:10.1364/PRJ.545282

Photonics Research, Volume. 13, Issue 4, 905(2025)

Floquet engineering with spatially nonuniform driving fields

Stella T. Schindler^1,2,4 and Hanan Herzig Sheinfux^3、*

Author Affiliations

¹Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA

²Center for Theoretical Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA

³Physics Department, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan 5290002, Israel

⁴e-mail: schindler@lanl.gov

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Paper Information

Category: Physical Optics

Received: Oct. 16, 2024

Accepted: Jan. 15, 2025

Published Online: Mar. 28, 2025

The Author Email: Hanan Herzig Sheinfux (lightmatterinteractions@gmail.com)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.545282

CSTR:32188.14.PRJ.545282

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