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Floquet (periodic) driving has recently emerged as a powerful technique for engineering quantum systems and realizing non-equilibrium phases of matter. A central challenge to stabilizing quantum phenomena in such systems is the need to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-02 Guanghui He , Bingtian Ye , Ruotian Gong , Zhongyuan Liu , Kater W. Murch , Norman Y. Yao , Chong Zu

We demonstrate that the prethermal regime of periodically driven (Floquet), classical many-body systems can host nonequilibrium phases of matter. In particular, we show that there exists an effective Hamiltonian that captures the dynamics…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-04 Bingtian Ye , Francisco Machado , Norman Y. Yao

Periodically driven many-body systems generally heat towards a featureless 'infinite-temperature' state. As an alternative to uniform heating in a clean system, here we establish a Floquet superheating regime, where fast heating nucleates…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-11-18 Yang Hou , Andrea Pizzi , Huike Jin , Johannes Knolle , Roderich Moessner , Hongzheng Zhao

Periodically driven Floquet quantum many-body systems have revealed new insights into the rich interplay of thermalization, and growth of entanglement. The phenomenology of dynamical freezing, whereby a translationally invariant many-body…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-12 Rohit Mukherjee , Haoyu Guo , Debanjan Chowdhury

Floquet theory is an indispensable tool for analysing periodically-driven quantum many-body systems. Although it does not universally extend to classical systems, some of its methodologies can be adopted in the presence of well-separated…

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

Periodically driven classical many-body systems can host a rich zoo of prethermal dynamical phases. In this work, we extend the paradigm of classical prethermalization to aperiodically driven systems. We establish the existence of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-03 Sajag Kumar , Sayan Choudhury

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

The manipulation of many-body systems often involves time-dependent forces that cause unwanted heating. One strategy to suppress heating is to use time-periodic (Floquet) forces at large driving frequencies. For quantum spin systems with…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-08-25 Emanuele G. Dalla Torre , David Dentelski

We identify several phases of thermalization that describe regimes of behavior in isolated, periodically driven (Floquet), mesoscopic quantum chaotic systems. We also identify a new Floquet thermal ensemble -- the ladder ensemble -- that is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-11-21 Alan Morningstar , David A. Huse , Vedika Khemani

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…

Chaotic Floquet systems at sufficiently low driving frequencies are known to heat up to an infinite temperature ensemble in the thermodynamic limit. However at high driving frequencies, Floquet systems remain energetically stable in a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-11-08 Sourav Bhattacharjee , Souvik Bandyopadhyay , Anatoli Polkovnikov

Ultracold atomic gas provides a useful tool to explore many-body physics. One of the recent additions to this experimental toolbox is the Floquet engineering, where periodic modulation of the Hamiltonian allows the creation of effective…

We present a theory to describe thermalization mechanism for time-periodic finite isolated interacting quantum systems. The long time asymptote of natural observables in Floquet states is directly related to averages of these observables…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-10-14 Dong E. Liu

By means of a Floquet analysis, we study the quantum dynamics of a fully connected Lipkin-Ising ferromagnet in a periodically driven transverse field showing that thermalization in the steady state is intimately connected to properties of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-08-31 Angelo Russomanno , Rosario Fazio , Giuseppe E. Santoro

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

We analyse quasi-periodically driven quantum systems that can be mapped exactly to periodically driven ones and find Floquet Time Spirals in analogy with spatially incommensurate spiral magnetic states. Generalising the mechanism to…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-10-09 Hongzheng Zhao , Florian Mintert , Johannes Knolle

Prethermalization phenomena in driven systems are generally understood via a local Floquet Hamiltonian obtained from a high-frequency expansion. Remarkably, recently it has been shown that a driven Kitaev spin liquid with fractionalized…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-26 Anton Romen , Johannes Knolle , Michael Knap

Permutation symmetry plays a central role in the understanding of collective quantum dynamics. By introducing power law couplings that algebraically decay with the distance between the spins $r$ as $1/r^{\alpha}$, we break this symmetry…

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

We discuss the universal nature of relaxation in isolated many-body quantum systems subjected to global and strong periodic driving. Our rigorous Floquet analysis shows that the energy of the system remains almost constant up to an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-03-20 Takashi Mori , Tomotaka Kuwahara , Keiji Saito

We study the dynamics of the Fermi-Hubbard model driven by a time-periodic modulation of the interaction within nonequilibrium Dynamical Mean-Field Theory. For moderate interaction, we find clear evidence of thermalization to a genuine…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-05-09 Francesco Peronaci , Marco Schiró , Olivier Parcollet