# Regimes of heating and dynamical response in driven many-body localized systems

@article{Gopalakrishnan2016RegimesOH,
title={Regimes of heating and dynamical response in driven many-body localized systems},
author={S. Gopalakrishnan and M. Knap and E. Demler},
journal={Physical Review B},
year={2016},
volume={94},
pages={094201}
}
• Published 2016
• Physics
• Physical Review B
We explore the response of many-body localized (MBL) systems to periodic driving of arbitrary amplitude, focusing on the rate at which they exchange energy with the drive. To this end, we introduce an infinite-temperature generalization of the effective “heating rate” in terms of the spread of a random walk in energy space. We compute this heating rate numerically and estimate it analytically in various regimes. When the drive amplitude is much smaller than the frequency, this effective heating… Expand

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