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Dynamical freezing in the thermodynamic limit: the strongly driven ensemble

Anirban Das
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Sagnik Chaudhuri
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Luke Staszewski
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Alexander Wietek
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Frank Pollmann
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Roderich Moessner
  • Fonction : Auteur
Arnab Das
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Résumé

The ergodicity postulate, a foundational pillar of Gibbsian statistical mechanics predicts that a periodically driven (Floquet) system in the absence of any conservation law heats to a featureless `infinite temperature' state. Here, we find--for a clean and interacting generic spin chain subject to a {\it strong} driving field--that this can be prevented by the emergence of {\it approximate but stable} conservation-laws not present in the undriven system. We identify their origin: they do not necessarily owe their stability to familiar protections by symmetry, topology, disorder, or even high energy costs. We show numerically, {\it in the thermodynamic limit,} that when required by these emergent conservation-laws, the entanglement-entropy density of an infinite subsystem remains zero over our entire simulation time of several decades in natural units. We further provide a recipe for designing such conservation laws with high accuracy. Finally, we present an ensemble description, which we call the strongly driven ensemble incorporating these constraints. This provides a way to control many-body chaos through stable Floquet-engineering. Strong signatures of these conservation-laws should be experimentally accessible since they manifest in all length and time scales. Variants of the spin model we have used, have already been realized using Rydberg-dressed atoms.

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hal-04761585 , version 1 (31-10-2024)

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Asmi Haldar, Anirban Das, Sagnik Chaudhuri, Luke Staszewski, Alexander Wietek, et al.. Dynamical freezing in the thermodynamic limit: the strongly driven ensemble. 2024. ⟨hal-04761585⟩
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