Colloquium: Quantum and classical discrete time crystals

MP Zaletel, M Lukin, C Monroe, C Nayak, F Wilczek… - Reviews of Modern …, 2023 - APS
The spontaneous breaking of time-translation symmetry has led to the discovery of a new
phase of matter: the discrete time crystal. Discrete time crystals exhibit rigid subharmonic …

Colloquium: Nonthermal pathways to ultrafast control in quantum materials

A De La Torre, DM Kennes, M Claassen, S Gerber… - Reviews of Modern …, 2021 - APS
Recent progress in utilizing ultrafast light-matter interaction to control the macroscopic
properties of quantum materials is reviewed. Particular emphasis is placed on photoinduced …

[HTML][HTML] Out-of-equilibrium dynamics of quantum many-body systems with long-range interactions

N Defenu, A Lerose, S Pappalardi - Physics Reports, 2024 - Elsevier
Experimental progress in atomic, molecular, and optical platforms in the last decade has
stimulated strong and broad interest in the quantum coherent dynamics of many long-range …

Floquet engineering of quantum materials

T Oka, S Kitamura - Annual Review of Condensed Matter …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Floquet engineering, the control of quantum systems using periodic driving, is an old
concept in condensed matter physics dating back to ideas such as the inverse Faraday …

Topological bands for ultracold atoms

NR Cooper, J Dalibard, IB Spielman - Reviews of modern physics, 2019 - APS
There have been significant recent advances in realizing band structures with geometrical
and topological features in experiments on cold atomic gases. This review summarizes …

Eigenstate thermalization hypothesis

JM Deutsch - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
The emergence of statistical mechanics for isolated classical systems comes about through
chaotic dynamics and ergodicity. Here we review how similar questions can be answered in …

Thermalization and prethermalization in isolated quantum systems: a theoretical overview

T Mori, TN Ikeda, E Kaminishi… - Journal of Physics B …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
The approach to thermal equilibrium, or thermalization, in isolated quantum systems is
among the most fundamental problems in statistical physics. Recent theoretical studies have …

Many-body localization and thermalization in quantum statistical mechanics

R Nandkishore, DA Huse - Annu. Rev. Condens. Matter Phys., 2015 - annualreviews.org
We review some recent developments in the statistical mechanics of isolated quantum
systems. We provide a brief introduction to quantum thermalization, paying particular …

Dynamical obstruction to localization in a disordered spin chain

D Sels, A Polkovnikov - Physical Review E, 2021 - APS
We analyze a one-dimensional XXZ spin chain in a disordered magnetic field. As the main
probes of the system's behavior, we use the sensitivity of eigenstates to adiabatic …

Periodically driven quantum systems: Effective Hamiltonians and engineered gauge fields

N Goldman, J Dalibard - Physical review X, 2014 - APS
Driving a quantum system periodically in time can profoundly alter its long-time dynamics
and trigger topological order. Such schemes are particularly promising for generating …