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arxiv: 1708.01173 · v2 · pith:VR23X3I6new · submitted 2017-08-03 · 🧮 math-ph · cond-mat.dis-nn· math.MP

Topological boundary invariants for Floquet systems and quantum walks

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A Floquet systems is a periodically driven quantum system. It can be described by a Floquet operator. If this unitary operator has a gap in the spectrum, then one can define associated topological bulk invariants which can either only depend on the bands of the Floquet operator or also on the time as a variable. It is shown how a K-theoretic result combined with the bulk-boundary correspondence leads to edge invariants for the half-space Floquet operators. These results also apply to topological quantum walks.

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