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Long-Lived Interacting Phases of Matter Protected by Multiple Time-Translation Symmetries in Quasiperiodically Driven Systems

Dominic V. Else, Wen Wei Ho, Philipp T. Dumitrescu

2020Physical Review X88 citationsDOIOpen Access PDF

Abstract

A mathematical analysis reveals that novel, long-lived nonequilibrium phases can arise in matter subjected to an external quasiperiodic drive, hinting at unexplored richness in the phases of nonequilibrium matter.

Topics & Concepts

Quasiperiodic functionNon-equilibrium thermodynamicsPhysicsStatistical physicsHomogeneous spaceTheoretical physicsSymmetry (geometry)Complex systemClassical mechanicsQuantum mechanicsParticle (ecology)Quantum many-body systemsTopological Materials and PhenomenaQuantum Mechanics and Non-Hermitian Physics