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Anomalous thermalization and transport in disordered interacting Floquet systems

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Roy,  Sthitadhi
Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Max Planck Society;

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Bar Lev,  Yevgeny
Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Max Planck Society;

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Roy, S., Bar Lev, Y., & Luitz, D. J. (2018). Anomalous thermalization and transport in disordered interacting Floquet systems. Physical Review B, 98(6): 060201. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.98.060201.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0002-0914-E
Abstract
Local observables in generic periodically driven closed quantum systems are known to relax to values described by periodic infinite temperature ensembles. At the same time, ergodic static systems exhibit anomalous thermalization of local observables and satisfy a modified version of the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH), when disorder is present. This raises the question, how does the introduction of disorder affect relaxation in periodically driven systems? In this Rapid Communication, we analyze this problem by numerically studying transport and thermalization in an archetypal example. We find that thermalization is anomalous and is accompanied by subdiffusive transport with a disorder-dependent dynamical exponent. Distributions of matrix elements of local operators in the eigenbases of a family of effective time-independent Hamiltonians, which describe the stroboscopic dynamics of such systems, show anomalous departures from predictions of ETH, signaling that only a modified version of ETH is satisfied. The dynamical exponent is shown to be related to the scaling of the variance of these distributions with system size.