Floquet-Engineered Parity Anomaly Staircase in a Cold Atom Dirac Lattice

arXiv:2606.05164v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We propose a Floquet-engineered cold atom realization of a parity anomaly inspired anomalous Hall staircase in a two dimensional $\pi$-flux lattice. The effective model hosts massive Dirac fermions generated by the combined action of a time reversal symmetry breaking Floquet mass and a static inversion breaking mass offset. An additional momentum dependent scalar displacement term shifts different Dirac sectors in opposite energy directions without modifying their Bloch eigenvectors. As a result, the Berry curvature contribution associated with individual massive Dirac sectors can be selectively occupied, allowing the anomalous Hall response to evolve stepwise as a function of chemical potential or scalar displacement term. Evaluating the full lattice Berry curvature integral, we find plateau-like responses near $0$, $e^2/2h$, and $e^2/h$, corresponding respectively to the activation of zero, one, and two effective massive Dirac sector contributions. We analyze the associated low energy Dirac theory, band topology, Berry curvature structure, and two parameter response maps, and discuss a possible realization using Raman-assisted tunneling, off-resonant Floquet driving, and auxiliary AC-Stark dressing in ultracold atomic optical lattices.

Abstract:We propose a Floquet-engineered cold atom realization of a parity anomaly inspired anomalous Hall staircase in a two dimensional $\pi$-flux lattice. The effective model hosts massive Dirac fermions generated by the combined action of a time reversal symmetry breaking Floquet mass and a static inversion breaking mass offset. An additional momentum dependent scalar displacement term shifts different Dirac sectors in opposite energy directions without modifying their Bloch eigenvectors. As a result, the Berry curvature contribution associated with individual massive Dirac sectors can be selectively occupied, allowing the anomalous Hall response to evolve stepwise as a function of chemical potential or scalar displacement term. Evaluating the full lattice Berry curvature integral, we find plateau-like responses near $0$, $e^2/2h$, and $e^2/h$, corresponding respectively to the activation of zero, one, and two effective massive Dirac sector contributions. We analyze the associated low energy Dirac theory, band topology, Berry curvature structure, and two parameter response maps, and discuss a possible realization using Raman-assisted tunneling, off-resonant Floquet driving, and auxiliary AC-Stark dressing in ultracold atomic optical lattices.

Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas); Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

arXiv:2606.05164 [cond-mat.quant-gas]

(or arXiv:2606.05164v1 [cond-mat.quant-gas] for this version)

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