Tracking the quantized information transfer at the edge of a chiral Floquet phase
Phys. Rev. B 98, 054309 – Published 30 August, 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.98.054309
Abstract
Two-dimensional arrays of periodically driven qubits can host inherently dynamical topological phases with anomalous chiral edge dynamics. These chiral Floquet phases are formally characterized by a dynamical topological invariant, the chiral unitary index. Introducing a quantity called the chiral mutual information, we show that this invariant can be precisely interpreted in terms of a quantized chiral transfer of quantum information along the edge of the system, and devise a physical setup to measure it.