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Prethermalization and conservation laws in quasi-periodically-driven quantum systems

Mathematical Physics 2024-08-13 v3 Statistical Mechanics math.MP Quantum Physics

Abstract

We study conservation laws of a general class of quantum many-body systems subjected to an external time dependent quasi-periodic driving. {When the frequency of the driving is large enough or the strength of the driving is small enough, we prove a Nekhoroshev-type stability result: we show that the system exhibits a prethermal state for stretched exponentially long times in the perturbative parameter}. Moreover, we prove the quasi-conservation of the constants of motion of the unperturbed Hamiltonian and we analyze their physical meaning in examples of relevance to condensed matter and statistical physics.

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@article{arxiv.2306.14022,
  title  = {Prethermalization and conservation laws in quasi-periodically-driven quantum systems},
  author = {Matteo Gallone and Beatrice Langella},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.14022},
  year   = {2024}
}

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42 pages; 3 figures; equivalent to published version

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