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Published on: June 8, 2018
Phase Structure of Driven Quantum Systems
Vedika Khemani1,2, Achilleas Lazarides2, Roderich Moessner2
1Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA.
Abstract:
Clean and interacting periodically driven systems are believed to exhibit a single, trivial "infinite-temperature" Floquet-ergodic phase. In contrast, here we show that their disordered Floquet many-body localized counterparts can exhibit distinct ordered phases delineated by sharp transitions. Some of these are analogs of equilibrium states with broken symmetries and topological order, while others-genuinely new to the Floquet problem-are characterized by order and nontrivial periodic dynamics. We illustrate these ideas in driven spin chains with Ising symmetry.
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