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Periodically driving a many-body localized quantum system

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Peer-reviewed

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Article

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Authors

Bordia, P 
Lüschen, H 
Knap, M 

Abstract

We experimentally study a periodically driven many-body localized system realized by interacting fermions in a one-dimensional quasi-disordered optical lattice. By preparing the system in a far-from-equilibrium state and monitoring the remains of an imprinted density pattern, we identify a localized phase at high drive frequencies and an ergodic phase at low ones. These two distinct phases are separated by a dynamical phase transition which depends on both the drive frequency and the drive strength. Our observations are quantitatively supported by numerical simulations and are directly connected to the change in the statistical properties of the effective Floquet Hamiltonian.

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Keywords

cond-mat.quant-gas, cond-mat.quant-gas, cond-mat.dis-nn, cond-mat.stat-mech, cond-mat.str-el, quant-ph

Journal Title

Nature Physics

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Journal ISSN

1745-2473
1745-2481

Volume Title

13

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Sponsorship
We acknowledge support from Technical University of Munich - Institute for Advanced Study, funded by the German Excellence Initiative and the European Union FP7 under grant agreement 291763, from the DFG grant no. KN 1254/1-1, the European Commission (UQUAM, AQuS) and the Nanosystems Initiative Munich (NIM).