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Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Manju C , Uma Divakaran

The nature of the dynamical quantum phase transition between the many-body localized (MBL) phase and the thermal phase remains an open question, and one line of attack on this problem is to explore this transition numerically in finite-size…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-12-21 Liangsheng Zhang , Vedika Khemani , David A. Huse

We analyze the anisotropic Dicke model in the presence of a periodic drive and under a quasiperiodic drive. The study of drive-induced phenomena in this experimentally accesible model is important since although it is simpler than…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-03 Pragna Das , Devendra Singh Bhakuni , Lea F. Santos , Auditya Sharma

We investigate the role of symmetries in determining the random matrix class describing quantum thermalization in a periodically driven many body quantum system. Using a combination of analytical arguments and numerical exact…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-03-18 N. Regnault , Rahul Nandkishore

We give a general overview of the high-frequency regime in periodically driven systems and identify three distinct classes of driving protocols in which the infinite-frequency Floquet Hamiltonian is not equal to the time-averaged…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-08-20 Marin Bukov , Luca D'Alessio , Anatoli Polkovnikov

In periodically-driven quantum systems, resonances can induce exotic nonequilibrium behavior and new phases of matter without static analog. We report on the emergence of fractional and integer resonances in a broad class of many-body…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-26 R. Peña , V. M. Bastidas , F. Torres , W. J. Munro , G. Romero

It is expected that a generic closed many-body system prepared in a well-behaved initial state and subjected to a periodic drive will eventually thermalize, i.e. approach the state of maximal entropy. This property, while compatible with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-17 Anton Kapustin

We consider a system of two coupled oscillators one of which is driven parametrically and investigate both classical and quantum dynamics within Floquet description. Characteristic changes in the time evolution of the quantum fluctuations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-27 Sayak Biswas , S. Sinha

In a periodically driven (Floquet) system, there is the possibility for new phases of matter, not present in stationary systems, protected by discrete time-translation symmetry. This includes topological phases protected in part by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-04-10 Dominic V. Else , Bela Bauer , Chetan Nayak

The theoretical treatment of quasi-periodically driven quantum systems is complicated by the inapplicability of the Floquet theorem, which requires strict periodicity. In this work we consider a quantum system driven by a bi-harmonic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-06-26 David Cubero , Ferruccio Renzoni

Exploiting the rich phenomenology of periodically-driven many-body systems is notoriously hindered by persistent heating in both the classical and quantum realm. Here, we investigate to what extent coupling to a large thermal reservoir…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-08-22 Thomas Veness , Kay Brandner

Non-equilibrium dynamics of strongly and rapidly driven quantum many-body systems is poorly understood beyond periodic driving, where heating is exponentially slow in the drive frequency (Floquet Prethermalization). In contrast,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-26 Jian Xian Sim

Non-equilibrium time evolution in isolated many-body quantum systems generally results in thermalization. However, the relaxation process can be very slow, and quasi-stationary non-thermal plateaux are often observed at intermediate times.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-07-06 Vincenzo Alba , Maurizio Fagotti

Periodically driven quantum systems known as Floquet insulators can host topologically protected bound states known as "$\pi$ modes" that exhibit response at half the frequency of the drive. Such states can also appear in undriven lattice…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-13 Thomas Iadecola , Srimoyee Sen , Lars Sivertsen

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

An external periodic (Floquet) drive is believed to bring any initial state to the featureless infinite temperature state in generic nonintegrable isolated quantum many-body systems in the thermodynamic limit, irrespective of the driving…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-25 Tatsuhiko N. Ikeda , Sho Sugiura , Anatoli Polkovnikov

We investigate the fate of a many-body localized phase in a non-Hermitian quasiperiodic model of hardcore bosons subjected to periodic driving. While in general, the many-body localized system is known to thermalize with increasing driving…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-09-19 Sanchayan Banerjee , Ayan Banerjee , Tapan Mishra , Flore K. Kunst

We experimentally study a periodically driven many-body localized system realized by interacting fermions in a one-dimensional quasi-disordered optical lattice. By preparing the system in a far-from-equilibrium state and monitoring the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-05-24 Pranjal Bordia , Henrik Lüschen , Ulrich Schneider , Michael Knap , Immanuel Bloch

Periodically-driven quantum systems make it possible to reach stationary states with new emerging properties. However, this process is notoriously difficult in the presence of interactions because continuous energy exchanges generally boil…

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