Floquet Phases of Matter via Classical Prethermalization

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2104.13927v3
• Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2021 02:09:27 GMT
• Title: Floquet Phases of Matter via Classical Prethermalization
• Authors: Bingtian Ye, Francisco Machado, Norman Y. Yao
• Abstract summary: We show that classical many-body systems can host nonequilibrium phases of matter. We numerically demonstrate the existence of classical prethermal time crystals in systems with different dimensionalities.
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• Abstract: We demonstrate that the prethermal regime of periodically driven (Floquet), classical many-body systems can host nonequilibrium phases of matter. In particular, we show that there exists an effective Hamiltonian that captures the dynamics of ensembles of classical trajectories despite the breakdown of this description at the single trajectory level. In addition, we prove that the effective Hamiltonian can host emergent symmetries protected by the discrete time-translation symmetry of the drive. The spontaneous breaking of such an emergent symmetry leads to a subharmonic response, characteristic of time crystalline order, that survives to exponentially late times in the frequency of the drive. To this end, we numerically demonstrate the existence of classical prethermal time crystals in systems with different dimensionalities and ranges of interaction. Extensions to higher order and fractional time crystals are also discussed.

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