Floquet engineering of an optical Kagome lattice

Floquet engineering of optical lattices opens the door to a wide variety of physics, from modifying the tunneling parameter to the implementation of artificial gauge fields. Applied to the optical Kagome lattice, Floquet engineering can be used to invert the band structure to generate a flat ground band in the tight binding limit. This generates interaction dominated dynamics and the bosonic ground state is predicted to exhibit a charge-density wave that breaks down when the filling is increased above 1/9. So far, the optical Kagome lattice hasn't been explored experimentally in regards to Floquet engineering. We're building a new apparatus that offers unique control over the phase of the lattice beams, allowing for the implementation of Floquet drives that can generate inverted band structure and more. In addition, we'll be able to explore both bosonic and fermionic dynamics.