Critical quasienergy states in driven many-body systems
arXiv:1410.5281 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.90.063628
Abstract
We discuss singularities in the spectrum of driven many-body spin systems. In contrast to undriven models, the driving allows us to control the geometry of the quasienergy landscape. As a consequence, one can engineer singularities in the density of quasienergy states by tuning an external control. We show that the density of levels exhibits logarithmic divergences at the saddle points, while jumps are due to local minima of the quasienergy landscape. We discuss the characteristic signatures of these divergences in observables like the magnetization, which should be measurable with current technology.
10 pages, 4 figures, comments welcome
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