2017/08/31 by Huanan Li, Tsampikos Kottos, Boris Shapiro · 11 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Biology #Ecology #Metamorphosis #Nonlinear Photonic Systems #Optoelectronics #Physics #Resonator #Strong Light-Matter Interactions #Topological Materials and Phenomena #cond-mat.dis-nn #physics.optics
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physreva.97.023846
published in Physical Review A 97(2) (American Physical Society) · accepted version
arxiv created 2018/02/28 · openalex publication_date 2018/02/28 · arxiv updated 2018/03/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/06
We propose a driving scheme, wherein different parts of a system are driven with different, generally incommensurate, frequencies. Such driving provides a flexible handle to control various properties of the system and to obtain new types of effective (static) Hamiltonians with arbitrary static on-site potential, be it deterministic or random. This allows us to obtain reconfigurable changes in transport, from ballistic to localized (including sub- and superdiffusion), depending on the driving protocol. The versatile reconfigurability extends also to scattering from (locally) driven extended targets. We demonstrate our scheme using an analytically solvable example of a one-dimensional tight-binding chain with appropriately driven couplings between nearby sites.