Nick O'Dea

All Publications

• Prethermal Stability of Eigenstates under High Frequency Floquet Driving. Physical review letters O'Dea, N., Burnell, F., Chandran, A., Khemani, V. 2024; 132 (10): 100401

  Abstract

  Systems subject to high-frequency driving exhibit Floquet prethermalization, that is, they heat exponentially slowly on a timescale that is large in the drive frequency, tau_{h}exp(omega). Nonetheless, local observables can decay much faster via energy conserving processes, which are expected to cause a rapid decay in the fidelity of an initial state. Here we show instead that the fidelities of eigenstates of the time-averaged Hamiltonian, H_{0}, display an exponentially long lifetime over a wide range of frequencies-even as generic initial states decay rapidly. When H_{0} has quantum scars, or highly excited eigenstates of low entanglement, this leads to long-lived nonthermal behavior of local observables in certain initial states. We present a two-channel theory describing the fidelity decay time tau_{f}: the interzone channel causes fidelity decay through energy absorption, i.e., coupling across Floquet zones, and ties tau_{f} to the slow heating timescale, while the intrazone channel causes hybridization between states in the same Floquet zone. Our work informs the robustness of experimental approaches for using Floquet engineering to generate interesting many-body Hamiltonians, with and without scars.

  View details for DOI 10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.100401

  View details for PubMedID 38518326

• Entanglement and absorbing-state transitions in interactive quantum dynamics PHYSICAL REVIEW B O'Dea, N., Morningstar, A., Gopalakrishnan, S., Khemani, V. 2024; 109 (2)

  View details for DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.109.L020304

  View details for Web of Science ID 001172812300003

• Hydrodynamics in long-range interacting systems with center-of-mass conservation PHYSICAL REVIEW B Morningstar, A., O'Dea, N., Richter, J. 2023; 108 (2)

  View details for DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.108.L020304

  View details for Web of Science ID 001064080500001

• Multimagnon quantum many-body scars from tensor operators PHYSICAL REVIEW RESEARCH Tang, L., O'Dea, N., Chandran, A. 2022; 4 (4)

  View details for DOI 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.4.043006

  View details for Web of Science ID 000876478200008

• From tunnels to towers: Quantum scars from Lie algebras and q-deformed Lie algebras PHYSICAL REVIEW RESEARCH O'Dea, N., Burnell, F., Chandran, A., Khemani, V. 2020; 2 (4)

  View details for DOI 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.043305

  View details for Web of Science ID 000605417800002