Lattice-trapped lithium as tunable Floquet matter*

Degenerate lithium in modulated optical lattices makes a near-ideal testbed for the experimental study of quantum matter driven far from equilibrium. We will present a sequence of recent experimental results: flexible Floquet engineering of band structure and transport properties, direct imaging of Floquet-Bloch bands using position-space Bloch oscillations, detailed experimental mapping of the properties of prethermal Floquet matter, and an observation of anomalously slow heating in a rapidly driven interacting gas.