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Effective Hamiltonians, prethermalization and slow energy absorption in periodically driven many-body systems (1510.03405v3)

Published 12 Oct 2015 in cond-mat.stat-mech, cond-mat.quant-gas, and cond-mat.str-el

Abstract: We establish some general dynamical properties of lattice many-body systems that are subject to a high-frequency periodic driving. We prove that such systems have a quasi-conserved extensive quantity $H_$, which plays the role of an effective static Hamiltonian. The dynamics of the system (e.g., evolution of any local observable) is well-approximated by the evolution with the Hamiltonian $H_$ up to time $\tau_$, which is exponentially long in the driving frequency. We further show that the energy absorption rate is exponentially small in the driving frequency. In cases where $H_$ is ergodic, the driven system prethermalizes to a thermal state described by $H_$ at intermediate times $t\lesssim \tau_$, eventually heating up to an infinite-temperature state at times $t\sim \tau_*$. Our results indicate that rapidly driven many-body systems generically exhibit prethermalization and very slow heating. We briefly discuss implications for experiments which realize topological states by periodic driving.

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