Chiral current in Floquet cavity-magnonics

Abstract

Floquet engineering can induce complex collective behaviour and interesting synthetic gauge-field in quantum systems through temporal modulation of system parameters by periodic drives. Using a Floquet drive on frequencies of the magnon modes, we realize a chiral state-transfer in a cavity-magnonic system. The time-reversal symmetry is broken in such a promising platform for coherent information processing. In particular, the photon mode is adiabatically eliminated in the large-detuning regime and the magnon modes under conditional longitudinal drives can be indirectly coupled to each other with a phase-modulated interaction. The effective Hamiltonian is then used to generate chiral currents in a circular loop, whose dynamics is evaluated to measure the symmetry of the system Hamiltonian. Beyond the dynamics limited in the manifold with a fixed number of excitations, our protocol applies to the continuous-variable systems with arbitrary states. Also it is found to be robust against the systematic errors in the photon-magnon coupling strength and Kerr nonlinearity.