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    Tracking the quantized information transfer at the edge of a chiral Floquet phase

    Blake R. Duschatko1, Philipp T. Dumitrescu1,2, and Andrew C. Potter1

    • 1Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
    • 2Center for Computational Quantum Physics, Flatiron Institute, 162 5th Avenue, New York, New York 10010, USA

    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.

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