Fragmentation and Novel Prethermal Dynamical Phases in Disordered, Strongly-Interacting Floquet Systems

TL;DR

This paper investigates how disorder and interactions in Floquet lattice models lead to new prethermal and many-body localized phases, revealing novel dynamical behaviors and stabilization of fragmentation in disordered, strongly-interacting systems.

Contribution

It demonstrates the emergence of new prethermal and localized phases in disordered Floquet systems, extending understanding of dynamical phases and Hilbert space fragmentation.

Findings

Disorder stabilizes prethermal phases near classical-like dynamics points.

Novel phases appear away from Diophantine points in parameter space.

Disorder stabilizes Hilbert space fragmentation, leading to exotic dynamics.

Abstract

We explore how disorder and interactions conspire in lattice models with sequentially activated hopping to produce novel k-body (or many-body) localized phases. Specifically, we show that when disorder is added to the set of interacting floquet models considered in [Wampler and Klich arXiv:2209.09180], regions in parameter space near the special points where classical-like dynamics emerge are stabilized prethermally (or via many-body localization in some cases) producing new families of interesting phases. We also find that this disordered system exhibits novel phases in regions of parameter space away from the special, Diophantine points. Furthermore, the regions in parameter space where Hilbert space fragmentation occurs in the clean system (leading to Krylov subspaces exhibiting frozen dynamics, cellular automation, and subspaces exhibiting signs of ergodic behavior) may also be stabilized by the addition of disorder. This leads to the emergence of exotic dynamics within the Krylov subspace.