Bounds on Energy Absorption and Prethermalization in Quantum Systems with Long-Range Interactions

DOI10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.120.200601arXiv1706.07207WikidataQ88975042 ScholiaQ88975042MaRDI QIDQ6288166FDOQ6288166

Authors: Wen Wei Ho, Ivan V. Protopopov, Dmitry A. Abanin 

Publication date: 22 June 2017

Abstract: Long-range interacting systems such as nitrogen vacancy centers in diamond and trapped ions serve as useful experimental setups to probe a range of nonequilibrium many-body phenomena. In particular, via driving, various effective Hamiltonians with physics potentially quite distinct from short-range systems can be realized. In this Letter, we derive general bounds on the linear response energy absorption rates of periodically driven systems of spins or fermions with long-range interactions that are sign changing and fall off as $1/r^{a}lpha$ with $alpha>d/2$. We show that the disordered averaged energy absorption rate at high temperature decays exponentially with the driving frequency. This strongly suggests the presence of a prethermal plateau in which dynamics is governed by an effective, static Hamiltonian for long times, and we provide numerical evidence to support such a statement. Our results are relevant for understanding timescales of both heating and hence new dynamical regimes described by effective Hamiltonians in such long-range systems.

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