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TT: Fachverband Tiefe Temperaturen

TT 17: Charge Density Wave Materials

TT 17.4: Talk

Thursday, September 30, 2021, 10:45–11:00, H6

Field tuning beyond the heat death of a charge-density-wave chain — •Manuel Weber1,2 and James Freericks21Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme, Nöthnitzer Str. 38, 01187 Dresden, Germany — 2Department of Physics, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20057, USA

Time-dependent driving of quantum systems has emerged as a powerful tool to engineer exotic phases far from thermal equilibrium; when the drive is periodic this is called Floquet engineering. The presence of many-body interactions can lead to runaway heating, so that generic systems are believed to heat up until they reach a featureless infinite-temperature state. Finding mechanisms to slow down or even avoid this heat death is a major goal---one such mechanism is to drive toward an even distribution of electrons in momentum space. Here we show how such a mechanism avoids the heat death for a charge-density-wave chain in a strong dc electric field; minibands with nontrivial distribution functions develop as the current is prematurely driven to zero. We also show how the field strength tunes between positive, negative, or close-to-infinite effective temperatures for each miniband. These results suggest that nontrivial metastable distribution functions should be realized in the prethermal regime of quantum systems coupled to slow bosonic modes.

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