Quantized Transport in Floquet Topological Insulators

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.13066v1
• Date: Wed, 13 May 2026 06:39:56 GMT
• Title: Quantized Transport in Floquet Topological Insulators
• Abstract summary: We study quantum transport in a periodically driven (Floquet) topological system coupled to static fermionic reservoirs.<n>We show that the two-terminal (longitudinal) conductance is quantized as $|W_varepsilon|,e2/h$, while the Hall (transverse) conductance is quantized as $W_varepsilon,e2/h$.
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• Abstract: We study quantum transport in a periodically driven (Floquet) topological system coupled to static fermionic reservoirs. Using the Floquet nonequilibrium Green's-function (NEGF) formalism we show, from exact numerics for a strip geometry, that the two-terminal (longitudinal) conductance is quantized as $|W_{\varepsilon}|\,e^2/h$, while the Hall (transverse) conductance is quantized as $W_{\varepsilon}\,e^2/h$, where $W_{\varepsilon}$ is the Floquet winding invariant associated with the quasienergy gap at $\varepsilon = 0$ or $\varepsilon = Ω/2$. Quantization is achieved only after summing over the contribution of all Floquet sidebands. We provide an analytic understanding of this Floquet conductance sum rule, by considering the Hall conductance in the weak coupling limit. In that limit, we show that the Floquet Hall conductance gets contributions from the Floquet sidebands, which includes the signs of the velocities of the edge modes. Their sum yields exact quantization, as predicted by the Floquet sum rule. We find that in a wide range of parameter regime, the convergence is fast, making observation of the sum rule and Floquet winding numbers accessible to experiments.

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