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Equilibration and Order in Quantum Floquet Matter

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks 2017-05-24 v1 Statistical Mechanics Strongly Correlated Electrons Quantum Physics

Abstract

Equilibrium theormodynamics is characterized by two fundamental ideas: thermalisation--that systems approach a late time thermal state; and phase structure--that thermal states exhibit singular changes as various parameters characterizing the system are changed. We summarise recent progress that has established generalizations of these ideas to periodically driven, or Floquet, closed quantum systems. This has resulted in the discovery of entirely new phases which exist only out of equilibrium, such as the π\pi-spin glass or Floquet time crystal.

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@article{arxiv.1701.08056,
  title  = {Equilibration and Order in Quantum Floquet Matter},
  author = {R. Moessner and S. L. Sondhi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1701.08056},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

short (6 pages) pedagogical introduction to recent developments, 2 figures

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