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Periodic steady state and interference in a periodically driven quantum system

arXiv:1204.5084 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.257201

Abstract

We study the coherent dynamics of a quantum many-body system subject to a time-periodic driving. We argue that in many cases, destructive interference in time makes most of the quantum averages time-periodic, after an initial transient. We discuss in detail the case of a quantum Ising chain periodically driven across the critical point, finding that, as a result of quantum coherence, the system never reaches an infinite temperature state. Floquet resonance effects are moreover observed in the frequency dependence of the various observables, which display a sequence of well-defined peaks or dips. Extensions to non-integrable systems are discussed.

5 pages, 3 figures, supplementary material, Accepted by PRL

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