TY - JOUR
T1 - Floquet -engineered moiré quasicrystal patterns of ultracold Bose gases in twisted bilayer optical lattices
AU - Fan, Zhenze
AU - Wang, Juan
AU - Li, Yan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2026 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2026/7/28
Y1 - 2026/7/28
N2 - We investigate the formation of moiré quasicrystal patterns in Bose gasses confined in twisted bilayer optical lattices via Floquet-engineered intralayer atomic interactions. The time evolution of the total density wave amplitude exhibit the stage for the emergence of moiré quasicrystal patterns, where the pattern formation is closely associated with the momenta of collective modes excited by the weak periodic drive. Through analyzing the radial and angular density wave amplitude, we find that these new collective modes are only coupled radially and cannot be decoupled eventually. The symmetry of quasicrystal patterns can be easily manipulated by the modulation frequencies and amplitudes. Reducing the frequencies and increasing the amplitudes can both facilitate lattice symmetry breaking and the subsequent emergence of rotational symmetry. Notably, a twelve-fold quasicrystal pattern emerges under specific parameters, closely resembling the moiré quasicrystal in twisted bilayer graphene. The momentum-space distributions also exhibit high rotational symmetry, which is consistent with the real-space patterns at specific evolution times. Our findings establish a new quantum platform for exploring quasicrystals and their symmetry properties in ultracold bosonic systems.
AB - We investigate the formation of moiré quasicrystal patterns in Bose gasses confined in twisted bilayer optical lattices via Floquet-engineered intralayer atomic interactions. The time evolution of the total density wave amplitude exhibit the stage for the emergence of moiré quasicrystal patterns, where the pattern formation is closely associated with the momenta of collective modes excited by the weak periodic drive. Through analyzing the radial and angular density wave amplitude, we find that these new collective modes are only coupled radially and cannot be decoupled eventually. The symmetry of quasicrystal patterns can be easily manipulated by the modulation frequencies and amplitudes. Reducing the frequencies and increasing the amplitudes can both facilitate lattice symmetry breaking and the subsequent emergence of rotational symmetry. Notably, a twelve-fold quasicrystal pattern emerges under specific parameters, closely resembling the moiré quasicrystal in twisted bilayer graphene. The momentum-space distributions also exhibit high rotational symmetry, which is consistent with the real-space patterns at specific evolution times. Our findings establish a new quantum platform for exploring quasicrystals and their symmetry properties in ultracold bosonic systems.
KW - Moiré quasicrystal pattern
KW - Pattern formation
KW - Ultracold Bose gases
KW - tTwisted bilayer optical lattices
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105034733473
U2 - 10.1016/j.physleta.2026.131646
DO - 10.1016/j.physleta.2026.131646
M3 - 文章
AN - SCOPUS:105034733473
SN - 0375-9601
VL - 585
JO - Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics
JF - Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics
M1 - 131646
ER -