• DOI:10.1103/PhysRevB.93.201103
• Corpus ID: 118361261

Classification of topological phases in periodically driven interacting systems

@article{Else2016ClassificationOT,
  title={Classification of topological phases in periodically driven interacting systems},
  author={Dominic V. Else and C. Nayak},
  journal={Physical Review B},
  year={2016},
  volume={93},
  pages={201103}
}

• D. Else, C. Nayak
• Published 15 February 2016
• Mathematics
• Physical Review B

We consider topological phases in periodically driven (Floquet) systems exhibiting many-body localization, protected by a symmetry $G$. We argue for a general correspondence between such phases and topological phases of undriven systems protected by symmetry $\mathbb{Z} \rtimes G$, where the additional $\mathbb{Z}$ accounts for the discrete time translation symmetry. Thus, for example, the bosonic phases in $d$ spatial dimensions without intrinsic topological order (SPT phases) are classified by the cohomology group $H^{d+1}(\mathbb{Z} \rtimes G, \mathrm{U}(1))$. For unitary symmetries, we interpret the additional resulting Floquet phases in terms of the lower-dimensional SPT phases that are pumped to the boundary during one time step. These results also imply the existence of novel symmetry-enriched topological (SET) orders protected solely by the periodicity of the drive.