Prethermal Phases in Long-Range Interacting Systems

ORAL

Abstract

Recent work has shown that periodically driven systems can be fundamentally richer than their static counterparts, enabling the realization of out-of-equilibrium phases of matter that have no static analog. These results are in tension with the conventional expectation that periodic driving generically heats an interacting system to infinite temperature, thus destroying any non-trivial order. One resolution to this issue is the existence of an exponentially long lived prethermal regime in short-range interacting systems, during which the driven system can host novel phases of matter. In this talk, we will prove the existence of bounds enabling prethermal phases of matter in long-range interacting systems. Our result open the doors for the realization of out-of-equilibrium phases in atomic, molecular, and ionic systems with power-law interactions.

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Presenters

  • Francisco Machado

    • University of California Berkeley
    • Physics, University of California, Berkeley

Authors

  • Francisco Machado

    • University of California Berkeley
    • Physics, University of California, Berkeley

  • Dominic Else

    • Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara
    • Physics, University of California Santa Barbara
    • Physics, University of Califonia, Santa Barbara

  • Gregory Meyer

    • University of California Berkeley
    • Physics, University of California, Berkeley

  • Chetan Nayak

    • Microsoft Corp
    • Microsoft Research Station Q

  • Norman Yao

    • Physics, Univ of California - Berkeley
    • Department of Physics, University of California
    • University of California, Berkeley
    • Univ of California - Berkeley
    • University of California Berkeley
    • Physics, University of California, Berkeley
    • Department of Physics, Univ of California - Berkeley