Emergence of nonequilibrium Lieb excitations in periodically-driven strongly-interacting bosons

Abstract

We study the exact nonequilibrium spectral function of a gas of strongly correlated Tonks-Girardeau bosons subjected to a strong periodic drive. Utilizing the theory of Floquet spectral function in conjunction with the Bose-Fermi mapping theorem, we show that nonequilibrium Lieb modes emerge if the underlying mapped fermions form a Floquet-Fermi sea. In the low-frequency regime, the exact analysis reveals the emergence of characteristic linear Lieb excitations for the bosonic system, while the underlying mapped fermions displays the wide Dirac-like linear dispersion.