Fine structure of heating in a quasiperiodically driven critical quantum system
Bastien Lapierre, Kenny Choo, Apoorv Tiwari, Clément Tauber, Titus Neupert, R. Chitra
Abstract
The authors study a one-dimensional critical quantum system subject to a Fibonacci quasiperiodic drive that alternates between two spatially modulated coupling profiles and find regions of fast heating as well as ultra-slow heating regions where the system remains non-heated within an experimentally accessible time.
Topics & Concepts
Quasiperiodic functionPhysicsQuantumQuantum systemCoupling (piping)Fibonacci numberStatistical physicsQuantum mechanicsQuantum decoherenceQuantum fluctuationComplex systemClassical mechanicsQuantum chaosQuantum dynamicsQuasiperiodicityQuantum many-body systemsQuasicrystal Structures and PropertiesQuantum chaos and dynamical systems