{
  "id": "1204.5084",
  "version": "v5",
  "published": "2012-04-23T15:25:49.000Z",
  "updated": "2012-11-16T17:39:43.000Z",
  "title": "Periodic steady state and interference in a periodically driven quantum system",
  "authors": [
    "Angelo Russomanno",
    "Alessandro Silva",
    "Giuseppe E. Santoro"
  ],
  "comment": "5 pages, 3 figures, supplementary material, Accepted by PRL",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.stat-mech",
    "quant-ph"
  ],
  "abstract": "We study the coherent dynamics of a quantum many-body system subject to a time-periodic driving. We argue that in many cases, destructive interference in time makes most of the quantum averages time-periodic, after an initial transient. We discuss in detail the case of a quantum Ising chain periodically driven across the critical point, finding that, as a result of quantum coherence, the system never reaches an infinite temperature state. Floquet resonance effects are moreover observed in the frequency dependence of the various observables, which display a sequence of well-defined peaks or dips. Extensions to non-integrable systems are discussed.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v5",
      "updated": "2012-11-16T17:39:43.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "75.10.Pq",
      "03.65.-w",
      "05.30.Rt"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "periodically driven quantum system",
      "periodic steady state",
      "interference",
      "quantum many-body system subject",
      "quantum averages time-periodic"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.257201",
      "journal": "Physical Review Letters",
      "year": 2012,
      "month": "Dec",
      "volume": 109,
      "number": 25,
      "pages": 257201
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 5,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2012PhRvL.109y7201R"
    }
  }
}