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The idea that the dynamical properties of quantum systems are invariably relative to other systems has recently regained currency. Using Relational Quantum Mechanics (RQM) for a case study, this paper calls attention to a question that has…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2024-03-26 Timotheus Riedel

Periodically driven quantum systems, known as Floquet systems, have been a focus of non-equilibrium physics in recent years, thanks to their rich dynamics. Not only time-periodic systems exhibit symmetries similar to those in spatially…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-01 Guoqing Wang , Changhao Li , Paola Cappellaro

Hermitian Hamiltonians with time-periodic coefficients can be analyzed via Floquet theory, and have been extensively used for engineering Floquet Hamiltonians in standard quantum simulators. Generalized to non-Hermitian Hamiltonians,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-16 Julia Cen , Yogesh N. Joglekar , Avadh Saxena

Periodically-driven systems are ubiquitous in science and technology. In quantum dynamics, even a small number of periodically-driven spins leads to complicated dynamics. Hence, it is of interest to understand what constraints such dynamics…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-20 Tanmoy Pandit , Alaina M. Green , C. Huerta Alderete , Norbert M. Linke , Raam Uzdin

Controlling the decoherence induced by the interaction of quantum system with its environment is a fundamental challenge in quantum technology. Utilizing Floquet theory, we explore the constructive role of temporal periodic driving in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Chong Chen , Jun-Hong An , Hong-Gang Luo , C. P. Sun , C. H. Oh

Quantum recurrence and dynamic localization are investigated in a class of ac-driven tight-binding Hamiltonians, the Krawtchouk quantum chain, which in the undriven case provides a paradigmatic Hamiltonian model that realizes perfect…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Stefano Longhi

Observables of out-of-equilibrium quantum many-body systems display complex temporal behavior that encodes the underlying physical mechanisms but typically resists straightforward interpretations. We introduce recurrence analysis - a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Tomasz Szołdra , Matheus S. Palmero , Peter Schmelcher

Floquet modulations often yield effective Hamiltonians not easily accessible in traditional time-dependent systems, which brings opportunities for exploring novel physics of quantum dynamics. We investigate a Floquet system exhibiting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-17 Suyang Lin , Ming Gong , Congjun Wu

Dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs) are characterized by nonanalytic behaviors of physical observables as functions of time. When a system is subject to time-periodic modulations, the nonanalytic signatures of its observables could…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-02 Longwen Zhou , Qianqian Du

This paper introduces several new classes of mathematical structures that have close connections with physics and with the theory of dynamical systems. The most general of these structures, called indivisible stochastic processes,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-09 Jacob A. Barandes

Floquet theory, first published in 1883 for periodic linear differential equations, is extended in this paper to multitime diagonal recurrences. We find explicitly a monodromy matrix, and we comment its eigenvalues (called Floquet…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-07-09 Cristian Ghiu , Raluca Tuliga , Constantin Udriste , Ionel Tevy

At the moment, the most efficient method to compute the state of a periodically driven quantum system is using Floquet theory and the Floquet eigenbasis. The wide application of this basis set method is limited by: a lack of unique ordering…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-21 Cristian M. Le , Ryosuke Akashi , Shinji Tsuneyuki

Despite being created through a fundamentally quantum-mechanical process, cosmological structures have not yet revealed any sign of genuine quantum correlations. Among the obstructions to the direct detection of quantum signatures in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-30 Thomas Colas , Julien Grain , Vincent Vennin

Optomechanical systems can exhibit self-sustained limit cycles where the quantum state of the mechanical resonator possesses nonclassical characteristics such as a strongly negative Wigner density, as was shown recently in a numerical study…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-11 Niels Lörch , Jiang Qian , Aashish Clerk , Florian Marquardt , Klemens Hammerer

The Floquet operator, defined as the time-evolution operator over one period, plays a central role in the work presented in this thesis on periodically perturbed quantum systems. Knowledge of the spectral nature of the Floquet operator…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 James Matthew McCaw

We study the behavior of errors in the quantum simulation of spin systems with long-range multi-body interactions resulting from the Trotter-Suzuki decomposition of the time-evolution operator. We identify a regime where the Floquet…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-13 Karthik Chinni , Manuel H. Muñoz-Arias , Ivan H. Deutsch , Pablo M. Poggi

In classical analysis, the convergence behavior of power series solutions to differential or recurrence equations is generally assumed to be invariant under internal rearrangement. This paper challenges that belief by proving that, for…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2025-04-15 Yoon-Seok Choun

The Floquet-Magnus expansion is a widely used tool to derive effective descriptions of time-periodic quantum systems by approximating their dynamics with a time-independent Hamiltonian. However, its standard formulation is, strictly…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-05-25 Daniel Burgarth , Robin Hillier , Davide Lonigro , Leonhard Richter

We study the first detected recurrence time problem of continuous-time quantum walks on graphs. While previous works have employed projective measurements to determine the first return time, we implement a protocol based on weak…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-27 Tim Heine , Eli Barkai , Klaus Ziegler , Sabine Tornow

Statistics of Poincar\'e recurrences is studied for the base-pair breathing dynamics of an all-atom DNA molecule in realistic aqueous environment with thousands of degrees of freedom. It is found that at least over five decades in time the…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2015-11-04 Alexey K. Mazur , D. L. Shepelyansky