Floquet engineering in the radio-frequency dressed electromagnetically induced transparency spectra of ground state...

Periodically driven systems, so-called Floquet systems, exhibit novel and exotic phases of matters inaccessible in static counterparts. The associated flexibility offered by Floquet engineering has helped gain insight into synthetic dimensions of quantum systems, non-equilibrium dynamics, and topology. Here, we apply the technique of Floquet engineering to the coherent dressing of spin states, aiming to provide a new dimension in the spin manipulation. We use an anti-relaxation coated ⁸⁷Rb vapor cell interacting with a transverse radio-frequency magnetic field, which is resonant with the Larmor precession and excites the coherence between adjacent Zeeman sublevels. The narrow linewidth of the natural resonance promises the successful observation of a radio-frequency dressed spin state via electromagnetically induced transparency spectroscopy. In this configuration, we create a Floquet system by adding a longitudinal oscillating magnetic field to periodically drive Zeeman levels. We experimentally observe the Floquet engineered coherent dressing spectroscopy, featuring a series of sidebands in frequency space with weight factor in terms of Bessel function, as expected by our theoretical model. Our method can be applied to coherent dressed states of natural and artificial atoms, offering the possibilities of quantum bit control and quantum sensing.