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Floquet Schrieffer-Wolff transform based on Sylvester equations

Quantum Physics 2025-01-27 v4 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

We present a Floquet Schrieffer Wolff transform (FSWT) to obtain effective Floquet Hamiltonians and micro-motion operators of periodically driven many-body systems for any non-resonant driving frequency. The FSWT perturbatively eliminates the oscillatory components in the driven Hamiltonian by solving operator-valued Sylvester equations with systematic approximations. It goes beyond various high-frequency expansion methods commonly used in Floquet theory, as we demonstrate with the example of the driven Fermi-Hubbard model. In the limit of high driving frequencies, the FSWT Hamiltonian reduces to the widely used Floquet-Magnus result. We anticipate this method will be useful for designing Rydberg multi-qubit gates, controlling correlated hopping in quantum simulations in optical lattices, and describing multi-orbital and long-range interacting systems driven in-gap.

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@article{arxiv.2407.08405,
  title  = {Floquet Schrieffer-Wolff transform based on Sylvester equations},
  author = {Xiao Wang and Fabio Pablo Miguel Méndez-Córdoba and Dieter Jaksch and Frank Schlawin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.08405},
  year   = {2025}
}

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20 pages, 9 figures

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