Fermionic transport through a driven quantum point contact: breakdown of Floquet thermalization beyond a critical driving frequency

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2411.04982v1
• Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2024 18:54:32 GMT
• Title: Fermionic transport through a driven quantum point contact: breakdown of Floquet thermalization beyond a critical driving frequency
• Authors: Ivan V. Dudinets, Oleg Lychkovskiy,
• Abstract summary: We study a quantum system that consists of two fermionic chains coupled by a driven quantum point contact (QPC) We numerically track the evolution of the system and demonstrate that, at frequencies above a critical one, the current through the QPC halts, and the particle imbalance between the chains remains forever.
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• Abstract: We study a quantum system that consists of two fermionic chains coupled by a driven quantum point contact (QPC). The QPC contains a bond with a periodically varying tunneling amplitude. Initially the left chain is packed with fermions while the right one is empty. We numerically track the evolution of the system and demonstrate that, at frequencies above a critical one, the current through the QPC halts, and the particle imbalance between the chains remains forever. This implies a spectacular breakdown of the Floquet version of the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis which predicts a homogeneous particle density profile at large times. We confirm the effect for various driving protocols and interparticle interactions.

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