Dissipative Stabilization of Floquet-Engineered Many-Body Order

Abstract:Floquet driving underlies Hamiltonian and gate engineering, and produces dynamical orders with no equilibrium counterpart. These phenomena are, however, transient in well-isolated systems. We show that statically coupled dissipative auxiliaries cool the system toward low-energy states of the Floquet-engineered Hamiltonian, stabilizing orders in the steady state. The excess energy density is controllably small at high drive frequency and weak coupling and is captured by rate theory based on Fermi's Golden Rule. We numerically confirm robust cooling in a Floquet-engineered transverse-field Ising chain in both phases, and demonstrate discrete time-crystalline order, with a period-doubled magnetization response, in the steady state of a long-range Ising chain. Our results provide a rare analytical handle on the steady states of driven dissipative systems.

Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas); Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)

arXiv:2607.16391 [quant-ph]

(or arXiv:2607.16391v1 [quant-ph] for this version)

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2607.16391 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration)

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