Phase transitions in periodically driven macroscopic systems

TL;DR

This paper investigates how periodically driven macroscopic systems can exhibit equilibrium-like behavior in the long term, enabling the engineering of new phases and phase transitions through tailored driving fields.

Contribution

It demonstrates that under specific conditions, driven systems can mimic equilibrium systems, providing a framework for designing new phases via external driving.

Findings

Time-averaged behavior matches certain equilibrium systems.

Driving fields can induce new phases and phase transitions.

Conditions depend on system and driving parameters.

Abstract

We study the large-time behavior of a class of periodically driven macroscopic systems. We find, for a certain range of the parameters of either the system or the driving fields, the time-averaged asymptotic behavior effectively is that of certain other equilibrium systems. We then illustrate with a few examples how the conventional knowledge of the equilibrium systems can be made use in choosing the driving fields to engineer new phases and to induce new phase transitions.