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Prethermalization without temperature

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Pith's one-line read A periodically driven spin system can keep time-crystalline order at infinite temperature through an emergent conserved magnetization.

desk verdict A genuine conceptual advance—approximate U(1) conservation can stabilize prethermal DTCs at infinite temperature—with a concrete NMR protocol; the main soft spot is an un-derived polynomial timescale that bounds the exponential window. read the letter →

arxiv 1908.10371 v2 pith:DSOYOSIV submitted 2019-08-27 cond-mat.dis-nn quant-ph

David J. Luitz , Roderich Moessner , S. L. Sondhi , Vedika Khemani This is my paper · ORCID
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keywords prethermalizationFloquetsystemsdiscretetimecrystalemergentU(1)symmetrymagnetizationautocorrelatormany-bodylocalizationNMRexperimenthigh-frequencyexpansion
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The pith

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The reading

This paper argues that a clean, periodically driven quantum system can show a long-lived prethermal regime even when its initial state is at infinite temperature with respect to the effective Hamiltonian that governs the prethermal dynamics, as long as the drive creates an approximately conserved quantity. In the concrete setting studied, that quantity is the total $z$-magnetization: to leading order in the effective Hamiltonian it is exactly conserved, so a state with finite magnetization density keeps nontrivial dynamics, including period-doubled (time-crystalline) oscillations, for exponentially long times. The claim matters because it removes two requirements previously tied to discrete time crystals: disorder-induced many-body localization and low-temperature spontaneous symmetry breaking. It also gives a direct explanation of the period-doubled signal seen in a clean NMR experiment, and predicts that a small change to that experiment's magnetic field should extend the signal's lifetime by orders of magnitude.

What carries the argument

The mechanism is the high-frequency Floquet effective Hamiltonian, specifically its leading-order time-averaged term $\hat{H}_F^{(0)}$ obtained from the two-period unitary $U(2T)$. At $hT_1 = \pi$ the field factor $e^{-ihT_1 S^z_{\mathrm{tot}}}$ is a $\pi$-pulse about $z$, which anticommutes with the $S^x$ error of the imperfect spin flip and echoes it out to leading order; $\hat{H}_F^{(0)}$ therefore conserves $S^z_{\mathrm{tot}}$ exactly, with the first symmetry-breaking corrections appearing only as commutator terms of order $\epsilon J/\omega$. That separation of scales sets two timescales: the heating time $t_{\mathrm{h}} \sim \exp(\omega/J)$ and the symmetry-breaking time $t_{\mathrm{th}} \sim \omega^2/\epsilon^2$, and the magnetization lifetime is their minimum. The infinite-temperature magnetization autocorrelator $C_{\mathrm{tot}}(nT) = 1 - \Delta(nT)$ is the diagnostic used to track this approximate conservation.

What would settle it

Measure or simulate the infinite-temperature magnetization autocorrelator for the $hT_1 = \pi$ drive as a function of driving frequency at fixed small pulse error $\epsilon$. The central claim predicts the time to reach a threshold value (say $C_{\mathrm{tot}} = 0.8$) grows exponentially with $\omega$, $t_{\mathrm{m}} \sim \exp(\omega/J)$. If the growth is only polynomial in $\omega$, or if tuning a $^{31}\mathrm{P}$ NMR experiment from $hT_1 = 0$ to $hT_1 = \pi$ does not extend the period-doubled signal beyond roughly 100 cycles, the central claim is refuted.

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Extended reading notes

Core claim

The central discovery is that an emergent approximate $U(1)$ conservation law can replace temperature as the organizing principle of a prethermal regime. In the NMR-inspired model, setting the stroboscopic field phase to $hT_1 = \pi$ makes the $z$-field segment act as a $\pi$-pulse that cancels the leading-order effect of the imperfect spin flip, so the leading-order Floquet effective Hamiltonian conserves total magnetization exactly; residual symmetry-breaking terms enter only at order $\epsilon J/\omega$ and destroy the conservation on a timescale $t_{\mathrm{th}} \sim \omega^2/\epsilon^2$, which for small $\epsilon$ can outlive the exponentially long heating time $t_{\mathrm{h}} \sim \exp(\omega/J)$. Because the near-$\pi$ flip anticommutes with magnetization, the conservative dynamics appear as period-doubled oscillations even from infinite-temperature initial states. The paper also proposes a diagnostic: local $z$-autocorrelators decay quickly while the global magnetization autocorrelator persists, distinguishing this prethermal $U(1)$ time crystal from a many-body-localized one.

Load-bearing premise

The exponential prethermal window rests on the assumption that the symmetry-breaking corrections enter only through commutator terms of order $\epsilon J/\omega$; if they were not suppressed by $1/\omega$, the magnetization lifetime would be polynomial and the time-crystalline signal would not survive beyond the heating time.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • The clean NMR experiment's period-doubled signal is a prethermal $U(1)$ effect, not evidence of many-body localization, and tuning its field to $hT_1 = \pi$ should extend the signal's lifetime by orders of magnitude.
  • Prethermal discrete time crystals can exist at high or infinite temperature even where spontaneous symmetry breaking is forbidden, because the mechanism needs only an emergent conserved quantity, not an ordered low-temperature state.
  • Local $z$-autocorrelators decay quickly while the global magnetization autocorrelator persists; this contrast gives a practical experimental diagnostic separating prethermal $U(1)$ time crystals from many-body-localized ones.
  • For sufficiently small pulse error $\epsilon$, there is a wide frequency window in which the magnetization lifetime is exponential in $\omega/J$, set by heating rather than by the symmetry-breaking corrections.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The authors leave implicit that the same leading-order echo cancellation could stabilize other emergent conservation laws, so Floquet drives might be engineered to protect particle number, angular momentum, or other charges in analogous prethermal regimes.
  • A direct experimental scan of $hT_1$ through $\pi$ at fixed frequency should show the time-crystal lifetime peaking at the resonant value and growing exponentially with frequency; this would test the mechanism without needing site-resolved measurements.
  • The paper's Eq. (8) drive suggests that an effective Hamiltonian may be unnecessary: a low-frequency oscillating-field protocol could show long-lived $U(1)$ conservation without a quasi-local $H_{\mathrm{eff}}$, which would be the strongest form of prethermalization without temperature.
  • If this picture generalizes, Floquet prethermal phases might be classified by the emergent symmetries of their leading-order Hamiltonians rather than by temperature, with each conserved charge opening its own long-lived dynamical window.
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Referee Report

3 major / 5 minor

Summary. The paper proposes a mechanism for prethermalization in clean, interacting Floquet systems based on an emergent approximate U(1) conservation law. The central idea is that, even when the initial state is at infinite temperature with respect to the effective Hamiltonian, a long-lived conserved magnetization can stabilize nontrivial dynamics and a period-doubled discrete-time-crystal response, without many-body localization and without spontaneous symmetry breaking. The authors analyze an NMR-inspired spin-chain drive, identify the field value hT1=π as optimal because the leading-order detuning term is echoed out over two periods, and present numerical evidence that the magnetization autocorrelator lifetime grows exponentially with driving frequency. They also propose a diagnostic to distinguish this prethermal U(1) time crystal from MBL time crystals and from prethermal symmetry-broken time crystals, and they argue that a small change to the Rovny et al. NMR protocol would dramatically enhance the observed period-doubled signal.

Significance. If the central scaling claim is correct, the paper substantially broadens the prethermal time-crystal paradigm: it removes the need for low-temperature symmetry-broken initial states and for disorder, and it gives a concrete experimental route to enhancing the NMR DTC signal by orders of magnitude. The work also provides a clean model, exact algebraic simplifications at hT1=π, a useful local-versus-global autocorrelator diagnostic, and numerically exact quantum typicality data for systems of size L=20-24. The distinction between prethermal U(1) DTCs and prethermal SSB DTCs is conceptually valuable. However, the key prediction of an exponentially long-lived signal is currently supported more by a stated scaling than by a derivation or by a direct quantitative comparison of the competing polynomial and exponential timescales.

major comments (3)
  1. [Section III, Case 3 (paragraph after Fig. 2)] The central exponential-lifetime claim is in tension with the polynomial timescale quoted immediately after Fig. 2. The manuscript states that higher-order corrections at O(εJ/ω) destroy Sz_tot on a timescale tth ∼ ω²/ε² and that for small ε and large ω one can still isolate a window with tm ∼ th ∼ exp(ω). Taking the authors' parameters ε=0.1, J=1, and ω=12 (the largest frequency in Fig. 2), tth ≈ 1.4×10^4 while th ≈ e^12 ≈ 1.6×10^5, so tm = min(tth,th) is set by the polynomial timescale, not the exponential one. The 'large prethermal window' requires tth > th, but the crossover frequency where this occurs is neither derived nor identified in the data; without it, the exponential-looking curves in Fig. 2 may be a crossover artifact rather than the claimed prethermal plateau. This is load-bearing for the paper's main prediction of exponentially enhanced DTC lifetime, and needs a direct derivation or numerical verification of tth(ω,ε) and its crossover with th.
  2. [Section III, Eqs. (4)-(5)] The claim that at hT1=π the leading-order Sx_tot detuning term is echoed out is the load-bearing step, but it is only argued in words. Starting from Eq. (4), U(2T)=P_x^ε e^{+ihT1Sz} e^{-iT1Hc} P_x^ε e^{-ihT1Sz} e^{-iT1Hc}; setting hT1=π gives P_x^ε e^{-iT1Hc} P_x^{-ε} e^{-iT1Hc} after conjugating the z-π pulse through Hc. A Magnus/BCH expansion of this operator is not presented; the assertion that the first un-dressable U(1)-breaking term is O(εJ/ω) rather than O(εJ) is exactly what determines whether the lifetime is ω-enhanced or simply O(1/ε²). Please provide the leading commutator terms explicitly, or an independent numerical check that the symmetry-breaking rate scales as (ε/ω)^2 (or (εJ/ω)^2) at fixed ε.
  3. [Section III, numerical parameter regime] The simulated system sizes L=20-24 only marginally satisfy the required hierarchy J≪ω≪JL; the authors themselves note that the many-body bandwidth is only a factor of 5-10 larger than the frequency for these sizes. Since the claimed exponential tm(ω) window is expected only when ω is simultaneously large against J and small against the extensive bandwidth, the numerical demonstration would be strengthened by a finite-size scaling analysis at fixed ω (or at fixed ω/L) to rule out band-edge effects masquerading as prethermal plateaus. The observed weak L-dependence in Fig. 2 is encouraging but covers a limited range.
minor comments (5)
  1. [Section II, Eq. (2)] The 1D nearest- and next-nearest-neighbor model is introduced as 'inspired by' the 3D dipolar NMR experiment, but the justification for truncating the long-range dipolar interactions to these short-range terms is not given; a sentence explaining why the essential physics survives this truncation would help.
  2. [Section III, Eq. (6)] The normalization in Eq. (6) is confusing: the first line uses a prefactor 1/(2L) with an operator norm, while the third line defines Ctot with 1/L. Please clarify whether the Hilbert-Schmidt norm is normalized by the square root of the Hilbert-space dimension, or simplify the displayed equation to avoid an apparent dimensional inconsistency.
  3. [Section III, Fig. 2] The lifetime estimate uses an arbitrary threshold Ctot=0.8; it would be useful to state whether the qualitative exponential-with-ω behavior persists for other thresholds, e.g. 0.5 or 0.9, so that the result is not threshold-dependent.
  4. [Section IV] The discussion of the trapped-ion system refers to 'numerics for this model on different initial states' with a superscript, but no data or citation for those numerics is provided in the text; please add the reference or move the statement to a footnote with supporting citation.
  5. [Acknowledgments] The code is stated to be based on PETSc and SLEPc, but no data/code availability statement is given; adding a short reproducibility statement would be valuable for a numerical paper of this type.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity: the central prethermal U(1) mechanism follows from exact commutator algebra and externally cited rigorous prethermalization results.

full rationale

The paper's central derivation is not circular. The key step is the exact reduction of the two-period Floquet unitary in Eq. (4): using [H_c, P^π_x] = 0 and {S^z_tot, P^π_x} = 0, the authors eliminate the large π-pulse and show that, at hT_1 = π, the z-field segment also realizes an effective π-pulse that echoes out the εS^x_tot term to leading order in the high-frequency expansion. This is an algebraic identity, not an assumption equivalent to the target conclusion. The resulting leading-order effective Hamiltonian in Eq. (5) has an exact U(1) symmetry, and the longevity of magnetization then follows from the rigorous prethermalization theorems of Abanin et al. (Refs. 26–29), which are external, parameter-free results with stated assumptions and are not authored by the present paper's authors. No fitted parameter is renamed as a prediction: the lifetimes in Figs. 1 and 2 are extracted from numerically exact time evolution rather than from a fit to the claimed exponential form, and the threshold 0.8 is an explicitly defined diagnostic, not a fitted quantity. The paper's own caveat about higher-order corrections at O(εJ/ω) and the polynomial timescale t_th ~ ω²/ε² (Section III C, after Fig. 4) is a stated limitation of the prethermal window, not a circular reimportation of the result; whether that scaling is quantitatively correct is a correctness or verification concern, not a circularity one. Self-citations to the authors' earlier Floquet time-crystal papers (Refs. 1, 3–5, 24) appear only as background and definitions, not as the load-bearing justification for the new mechanism. The claimed prediction of enhanced DTC lifetime at hT_1 = π is therefore derived from exact algebra plus external theorems and numerically demonstrated, so the derivation chain is self-contained and no circular step can be exhibited.

Assumptions & free parameters 3 free parameters · 4 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The central claim rests on standard prethermalization theorems, a special drive point hT1=pi, and numerical parameters. Free parameters are model choices and a lifetime threshold rather than fits to the target result. No new particles, forces, or physical entities are postulated.

free parameters (3)
  • epsilon (pulse detuning) = 0.1 (0.18 in Fig. 3)
    Small parameter controlling the strength of the Sx perturbation and the symmetry violation; chosen by hand, not fitted to data.
  • J' (next-nearest neighbor coupling) = 0.5 J
    Added to break integrability; chosen for numerical convenience, not fitted.
  • Ctot threshold for lifetime = 0.8
    Defines tm in Fig. 2; a diagnostic choice, not a fit to the central prediction, but it affects the quoted lifetimes.
assumptions (4)
  • domain assumption High-frequency Floquet-Magnus expansion yields a quasilocal effective Hamiltonian with exponentially small heating time th ~ exp(omega/J).
    Invoked in Section III as the basis for the prethermal window, relying on Refs. [26-29].
  • domain assumption The 1D short-range spin model captures the essential physics of the 3D dipolar NMR experiment.
    Stated in Section II as a tractable minimal model inspired by the NMR drive; the framework is argued to extend to higher dimensions and longer-range interactions.
  • domain assumption In the absence of disorder, the system thermalizes within U(1) magnetization sectors, so local autocorrelators decay while global magnetization survives.
    Used in Section IV to distinguish prethermal U(1) DTCs from MBL DTCs.
  • standard math Haar-random typicality states approximate infinite-temperature traces exponentially well in system size.
    Used in Eq. (7) for the numerical evaluation of Ctot.

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While a clean driven system generically absorbs energy until it reaches `infinite temperature', it may do so very slowly exhibiting what is known as a prethermal regime. Here, we show that the emergence of an additional approximately conserved quantity in a periodically driven (Floquet) system can give rise to an analogous long-lived regime. This can allow for non-trivial dynamics, even from initial states that are at a high or infinite temperature with respect to an effective Hamiltonian governing the prethermal dynamics. We present concrete settings with such a prethermal regime, one with a period-doubled (time-crystalline) response. We also present a direct diagnostic to distinguish this prethermal phenomenon from its infinitely long-lived many-body localised cousin. We apply these insights to a model of the recent NMR experiments by Rovny et al., [Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 180603 (2018)] which, intriguingly, detected signatures of a Floquet time crystal in a clean three-dimensional material. We show that a mild but subtle variation of their driving protocol can increase the lifetime of the time-crystalline signal by orders of magnitude.

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Figure 1. FIG. 1. Survival of the total magnetization [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_1.png] view at source ↗
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