Helical spacetime density waves in a trimmerized kagome lattice

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Abstract

The theoretical discovery and experimental preparation of Floquet/discrete time crystals have triggered heated discussions for ordered phases in a highly non-equilibrium scenario. In previous works, the interesting phenomena chiefly occur in the temporal direction, while the effects of the underlying lattice geometry play little roles. Here, motivated by an ongoing experiment at Berkeley concerning trimerized kagome optical lattice, we show that a helical spacetime density wave breaking spatiotemporal translation symmetry can emerge with rigid periodicity for soft-core bosons, when the lattice is under periodic quenches. Our work paves the way for finding a wide range of spatiotemporally ordered phases in various lattices far away from equilibrium.

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Authors

  • Biao Huang

    University of Pittsburgh, USA

  • Tsz-Him Leung

    University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Berkeley, USA

  • Dan Stamper-Kurn

    University of California, Berkeley and Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley and Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA

  • W. Vincent Liu

    University of Pittsburgh, USA and Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China