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Classification of interacting Floquet phases with $U(1)$ symmetry in two dimensions

We derive a complete classification of Floquet phases of interacting bosons and fermions with $U(1)$ symmetry in two spatial dimensions. According to our classification, there is a one-to-one correspondence between these Floquet phases and rational functions $π(z) = a(z)/b(z)$ where $a(z)$ and $b(z)$ are polynomials obeying certain conditions and $z$ is a formal parameter. The physical meaning of $π(z)$ involves the stroboscopic edge dynamics of the corresponding Floquet system: in the case of bosonic systems, $π(z) = \frac{p}{q} \cdot \tildeπ(z)$ where $\frac{p}{q}$ is a rational number which characterizes the flow of quantum information at the edge during each driving period, and $\tildeπ(z)$ is a rational function which characterizes the flow of $U(1)$ charge at the edge. A similar decomposition exists in the fermionic case. We also show that $\tildeπ(z)$ is directly related to the time-averaged $U(1)$ current that flows in a particular geometry. This $U(1)$ current is a generalization of the quantized current and quantized magnetization density found in previous studies of non-interacting fermionic Floquet phases.