A rigorous theory of many-body prethermalization for periodically driven and closed quantum systems

DOI10.1007/S00220-017-2930-XzbMATH Open1370.81226OpenAlexW3104756137MaRDI QIDQ2014266FDOQ2014266

Authors W. De Roeck, Wen Wei Ho, François Huveneers, Dmitry A. Abanin

Publication date 10 August 2017

Published in Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.05386

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Many-body theory; quantum Hall effect (81V70) Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20) Statistical thermodynamics (82B30)

Abstract: Prethermalization refers to the transient phenomenon where a system thermalizes according to a Hamiltonian that is not the generator of its evolution. We provide here a rigorous framework for quantum spin systems where prethermalization is exhibited for very long times. First, we consider quantum spin systems under periodic driving at high frequency $u$. We prove that up to a quasi-exponential time $a{u}_{\ast }sim{e}^{cfraculo{g}^{3}u}$, the system barely absorbs energy. Instead, there is an effective local Hamiltonian $hatD$ that governs the time evolution up to $a{u}_{\ast }$, and hence this effective Hamiltonian is a conserved quantity up to $a{u}_{\ast }$. Next, we consider systems without driving, but with a separation of energy scales in the Hamiltonian. A prime example is the Fermi-Hubbard model where the interaction $U$ is much larger than the hopping $J$. Also here we prove the emergence of an effective conserved quantity, different from the Hamiltonian, up to a time $a{u}_{\ast }$ that is (almost) exponential in $U/J$.

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