Driven Superconductors

Optical driving of condensed matter systems is a new method of engineering many-body states. In solids, this can be achieved by shining coherent light on a solid-state material. This approach has led to spectacular observations such as light-induced superconductivity and dynamical control of competing charge density wave phases. These phenomena belong to the rapidly growing field of light-induced manipulation and control of equilibrium states in strongly correlated systems.

We are interested in modelling the nonlinear dynamics of driven high-temperature superconductors. Special attention is given to the description of layered superconductors as stacks of Josephson junctions. We study the possibility for control of equilibrium properties and the emergence of genuine dynamical phases, such as time crystals, in layered superconductors under the presence of a periodically driven electric field.