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Yiming Pan1,2,3, Zhaopin Chen2,3,4, Bing Wang5
1School of Physical Science and Technology and Center for Transformative Science, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai 200031, China.
Abstract:
Usually, when coupling in a background gauge field, topological zero modes would yield an anomalous current at the interface, culminating in the zero-mode anomaly inflow, which is ultimately conserved by extra contributions from the topological bulk. However, the anomaly inflow mechanism for guiding Floquet steady states is rarely explored in periodically driven systems. Here we synthesize a driven topological-normal insulator heterostructure and propose a Floquet gauge anomaly inflow, associated with the occurrence of arbitrary fractional charge. Through our photonic modeling, we experimentally observed a Floquet gauge anomaly as the system was driven into anomalous topological phases. Prospectively, we believe our findings could pave a novel avenue on exploring Floquet gauge anomalies in driven systems of condensed matter, photonics, and ultracold atoms.
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