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Periodic driving enables the engineering of complex quantum matter, yet in interacting systems it generically leads to energy absorption, which limits the lifetime of the engineered states. To address this challenge, dynamical freezing has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Madhumita Sarkar , Ben Zindorf , Bhaskar Mukherjee , Sougato Bose , Roopayan Ghosh

Periodically driven systems provide a powerful platform for quantum multiparameter estimation. Constructing a static effective Hamiltonian in a proper rotating frame is commonly employed to assess the attainable precision. However, such an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Yu Yang , Yuyang Tang , Pei Zhang , Fuli Li

We find nonequilibrium phase transitions accompanied by multiple (nested) hysteresis behaviors in superconductors coupled to baths under a time-periodic light driving. The transitions are demonstrated with a full phase diagram in the domain…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-12-23 Huanyu Zhang , Kazuaki Takasan , Naoto Tsuji

Floquet engineering offers tantalizing opportunities for controlling the dynamics of quantum many body systems and realizing new nonequilibrium phases of matter. However, this approach faces a major challenge: generic interacting Floquet…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-06 Karthik I. Seetharam , Charles-Edouard Bardyn , Netanel H. Lindner , Mark S. Rudner , Gil Refael

Floquet systems are periodically driven systems. In this framework, the system Hamiltonian and associated spectra of interest are modified, giving rise to new quantum phases of matter and nonequilibrium dynamics without static counterparts.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-20 Yuechun Jiao , Yu Zhang , Jingxu Bai , Suotang Jia , C. Stuart Adams , Zhengyang Bai , Heng Shen , Jianming Zhao

This work explores a fundamental dynamical structure for a wide range of many-body quantum systems under periodic driving. Generically, in the thermodynamic limit, such systems are known to heat up to infinite temperature states after…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-15 Tomotaka Kuwahara , Takashi Mori , Keiji Saito

In periodically driven (Floquet) systems, evolution typically results in an infinite-temperature thermal state due to continuous energy absorption over time. However, before reaching thermal equilibrium, such systems may transiently pass…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-13 Kazuya Shinjo , Kazuhiro Seki , Tomonori Shirakawa , Rong-Yang Sun , Seiji Yunoki

We investigate the periodically driven dynamics of many-body systems, either classical or quantum, finite-dimensional or mean-field, displaying an unbounded phase-space. Using the lattice $\phi^4$ model and the $p$-spin spherical model as…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-12-10 Lorenzo Correale , Leticia F. Cugliandolo , Marco Schirò , Alessandro Silva

We explore prethermal Floquet steady states and instabilities of the weakly interacting two-dimensional Bose-Hubbard model subject to periodic driving. We develop a description of the nonequilibrium dynamics, at arbitrary drive strength and…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-11-17 Marin Bukov , Sarang Gopalakrishnan , Michael Knap , Eugene Demler

Periodic driving is used to steer physical systems to unique stationary states or nonequilibrium steady states (NESS), producing enhanced properties inaccessible to non-driven systems. For open quantum systems, characterizing the NESS is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 Milan Šindelka , David Gelbwaser-Klimovsky

In Floquet engineering, periodic driving is used to realize novel phases of matter which are inaccessible in thermal equilibrium. For this purpose, the Floquet theory provides us a recipe of obtaining a static effective Hamiltonian.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-03-29 Takashi Mori

The manipulation of quantum information in large systems requires precise control of quantum systems that are out-of-equilibrium. As the size of the system increases, its fragility in response to external perturbations and intrinsic…

Experiments on periodically driven quantum systems have effectively realized quasi-Hamiltonians, in the sense of Floquet theory, that are otherwise inaccessible in static condensed matter systems. Although the Floquet quasi-Hamiltonians are…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-08-17 Etienne Wamba , Axel Pelster , James R. Anglin

We present the stochastic thermodynamics analysis of an open quantum system weakly coupled to multiple reservoirs and driven by a rapidly oscillating external field. The analysis is built on a modified stochastic master equation in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-12 Gregory Bulnes Cuetara , Andreas Engel , Massimiliano Esposito

Floquet engineering, the control of quantum systems using periodic driving, is an old concept in condensed matter physics, dating back to ideas such as the inverse Faraday effect. There is a renewed interest in this concept owing to the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-12-20 Takashi Oka , Sota Kitamura

Tunability of an artificial quantum system is crucial to its capability to process quantum information. However, tunability usually poses significant demand on the design and fabrication of a device. In this work, we demonstrate that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-25 Yuan Zhou , Sisi Gu , Ke Wang , Gang Cao , Xuedong Hu , Ming Gong , Hai-Ou Li , Guo-Ping Guo

Three-body correlations, which arise between spin-polarized electrons in the first excited Landau level, are believed to play a key role in the emergence of enigmatic non-Abelian fractional quantum Hall (FQH) effects. Inspired by recent…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-12-12 Ching Hua Lee , Wen Wei Ho , Bo Yang , Jiangbin Gong , Zlatko Papić

Periodic driving of a quantum (or classical) many-body system can alter the systems properties significantly and therefore has emerged as a promising way to engineer exotic quantum phases, such as topological insulators and discrete time…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-12-22 Artem Rakcheev , Andreas M. Läuchli

Periodically driven quantum systems can be used to realize quantum pumps, ratchets, artificial gauge fields and novel topological states of matter. Starting from the Keldysh approach, we develop a formalism, the Floquet-Boltzmann equation,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-12-16 Maximilian Genske , Achim Rosch

Periodic (Floquet) driving enables Hamiltonian engineering and nonequilibrium phases, but interacting systems eventually heat by absorbing energy from the drive. Disorder can greatly delay this process, yielding long-lived prethermal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-07 Cooper M. Selco , Christian Bengs , Chaitali Shah , Ashok Ajoy