Floquet scars and prethermal fragmentation in a driven spin-one chain

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2603.06111v1
• Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2026 10:08:47 GMT
• Title: Floquet scars and prethermal fragmentation in a driven spin-one chain
• Abstract summary: Hamiltonian of the spin chain hosts a thermodynamically large number of $Z$-valued conserved quantities.<n>We study the Floquet dynamics of this chain within a given sector with fixed values of $W_ell$.
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• Abstract: We study the periodic dynamics of a spin-one chain driven using a square-pulse protocol with amplitude $Q_0$ and frequency $ω_D$. The Hamiltonian of the spin chain hosts a thermodynamically large number of $Z_2$-valued conserved quantities $W_{\ell}$ on the links $\ell$. This allows us to study the Floquet dynamics of this chain within a given sector with fixed values of $W_{\ell}$. For the sector with all $W_{\ell}=1$, we find signatures of quantum many-body scar states for $\hbar ω_D \gg Q_0$; they lead to oscillatory dynamics and fidelity revival for specific initial states. Upon lowering $ω_D$, we find an ergodic regime exhibiting fast thermalization consistent with the prediction of the (Floquet) eigenstate thermalization hypothesis. In addition, we identify special drive frequencies $ω_n^{\ast}= Q_0/(2n \hbar)$ (where $n = 1, 2, 3, \cdots$) at which the Floquet Hamiltonian exhibits prethermal strong Hilbert space fragmentation (HSF) with the largest fragment being ergodic; in contrast, a weak HSF is found at $ω'_n= Q_0/[\hbar(2n+1)]$ (where $n = 0, 1, 2, \cdots$). We also study the sector with $W_{\ell} =\{\cdots 1,1,-1,1,1,-1 \cdots \}$ which shows strong HSF at $ω_n^{\ast}$ but no fragmentation at $ω'_n$. Our analysis indicates that the strong HSF in this sector harbors an integrable largest fragment. We provide numerical support for our analytical and perturbative results using exact-diagonalization (ED) studies on finite chains of length $L\le 24$. Our numerical results for entanglement entropy, fidelity, and correlation functions of the driven chain provide definitive signatures of prethermal strong HSF for both sectors.

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