Many-body energy localization transition in periodically driven systems

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2013.02.011zbMATH Open1284.82041arXiv1210.2791OpenAlexW3103011482MaRDI QIDQ2442871FDOQ2442871

Authors: Luca D'Alessio, Anatoli Polkovnikov 

Publication date: 1 April 2014

Published in: Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: According to the second law of thermodynamics the total entropy of a system is increased during almost any dynamical process. The positivity of the specific heat implies that the entropy increase is associated with heating. This is generally true both at the single particle level, like in the Fermi acceleration mechanism of charged particles reflected by magnetic mirrors, and for complex systems in everyday devices. Notable exceptions are known in noninteracting systems of particles moving in periodic potentials. Here the phenomenon of dynamical localization can prevent heating beyond certain threshold. The dynamical localization is known to occur both at classical (Fermi-Ulam model) and at quantum levels (kicked rotor). However, it was believed that driven ergodic systems will always heat without bound. Here, on the contrary, we report strong evidence of dynamical localization transition in periodically driven ergodic systems in the thermodynamic limit. This phenomenon is reminiscent of many-body localization in energy space.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1210.2791

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zbMATH Keywords

many-body localizationquantum many-body systemsperiodically driven systemsFloquet Hamiltonian

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Many-body theory; quantum Hall effect (81V70) Interacting particle systems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C22) Quantum chaos (81Q50)

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