Robust purely optical signatures of Floquet states in laser-dressed crystals

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2501.17095v2
• Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2025 18:19:24 GMT
• Title: Robust purely optical signatures of Floquet states in laser-dressed crystals
• Authors: Vishal Tiwari, Roman Korol, Ignacio Franco,
• Abstract summary: Floquet theorem provides the natural states to characterize the physical properties of periodically driven solids.<n>Here, we identify a tell-tale signature of Floquet states in the linear optical response of laser-dressed solids.<n>The computations reveal intense, spectrally isolated, laser-controllable absorption/stimulated emission features at mid-infrared energies.
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• Abstract: Strong light-matter interactions can create non-equilibrium materials with on-demand novel functionalities. For periodically driven solids, the Floquet theorem provides the natural states to characterize the physical properties of these laser-dressed systems. However, signatures of the Floquet states are needed, as common experimental conditions, such as pulsed laser excitation and dissipative many-body dynamics, can disrupt their formation and survival. Here, we identify a tell-tale signature of Floquet states in the linear optical response of laser-dressed solids that remains prominent even in the presence of strong spectral congestion of bulk matter. To do so, we introduce a computationally efficient strategy based on the Floquet formalism to finally capture the full frequency-dependence in the optical response properties of realistic laser-dressed crystals, and use it investigate the Floquet engineering in a first-principle model for ZnO of full dimensionality. The computations reveal intense, spectrally isolated, laser-controllable, absorption/stimulated emission features at mid-infrared energies present for a wide range of laser-driving conditions that arise due to the hybridization of the Floquet states. As such, these spectral features open a purely optical pathway to investigate the birth and survival of Floquet states while avoiding the experimental challenges of fully reconstructing the band structure.

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