2018/07/31 by William Berdanier, Michael Kolodrubetz, S. A. Parameswaran +1 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #cond-mat.dis-nn #cond-mat.stat-mech #cond-mat.str-el
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevb.98.174203
published as Phys. Rev. B 98, 174203 (2018) · 11 pages, 6 figures; published version
arxiv created 2018/11/09 · arxiv updated 2018/11/12
Quenched randomness can lead to robust non-equilibrium phases of matter in periodically driven (Floquet) systems. Analyzing transitions between such dynamical phases requires a method capable of treating the twin complexities of disorder and discrete time-translation symmetry. We introduce a real-space renormalization group approach, asymptotically exact in the strong-disorder limit, and exemplify its use on the periodically driven interacting quantum Ising model. We analyze the universal physics near the critical lines and multicritical point of this model, and demonstrate the robustness of our results to the inclusion of weak interactions.