arXiv:2103.15831 · Physical review. B./Physical review. B

Prethermalization and entanglement dynamics in interacting topological pumps

Raffael Gawatz, Ajit Coimbatore Balram, Erez Berg, Netanel H. Lindner, Mark Spencer Rudner

Published May 12, 2022• 13 citations

Abstract

We investigate the formation of quasisteady states in one-dimensional pumps of interacting fermions at noninteger filling fraction, in the regime where the driving frequency and the interaction strength are small compared to the instantaneous single-particle band gap throughout the driving cycle. The system rapidly absorbs energy from the driving field and approaches a quasisteady state that locally resembles a maximal entropy state subject to the constraint of a fixed particle number in each of the system's single-particle Floquet bands. We explore the nature of this quasisteady state through one-body observables including the pumped current and natural orbital occupations, as well as the (many-body) entanglement spectrum and entropy. Potential disorder significantly reduces the amplitude of fluctuations of the quasisteady-state current around its universal value, while the lifetime of the quasisteady state remains nearly unaffected for disorder strengths up to the scale of the single-particle band gap. Interestingly, the natural orbital occupations and the entanglement entropy display patterns signifying the periodic entangling and disentangling of the system's degrees of freedom over each driving cycle. Moreover, prominent features in the system's time-dependent entanglement spectrum reveal the emergence of long timescales associated with the equilibration of many-particle correlations.

DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.105.195118

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