State-Selective Floquet Memory in Degenerate Manifolds
Abstract
In order to understand which initial states retain memory under periodic driving, it is necessary to depart from the ideal limit giving rise to invariant structures and work inside near-degenerate manifolds. We show that degeneracy itself is not conclusive and what actually matters is how perturbations, such as structural and driving imperfections, acts on the projected multiplet. For systems decoupling into the local clusters in the ideal limit, the projections can be computed within degenerate perturbation theory. There the stability is decided by two criteria: the coupling can not connect the state with other degenerate partners in the manifold, either by kinetic blocking, or more generally, by diagonalizing the projected coupling, and the drive's local selection rule must admit only transfer energies detuned from Floquet sidebands, in which case the projected drive generator exactly vanishes. We formalize these understandings in a periodically driven clean, short-ranged alternating XXZ chain and demonstrate a set of results that include, long-lived states, both of product form and entangled across the clusters, a periodic family of sideband resonances, and an explicit example showing opposite fates for states with identical energy and charges.
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BibTeX
@misc{sahoo2026stateselective,
title = {{State-Selective Floquet Memory in Degenerate Manifolds}},
author = {Ayan Sahoo and Argha Debnath and Debraj Rakshit},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.20428},
eprint = {2609.20428},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.20428},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - State-Selective Floquet Memory in Degenerate Manifolds
AU - Ayan Sahoo
AU - Argha Debnath
AU - Debraj Rakshit
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/17
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.20428
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.20428
AB - In order to understand which initial states retain memory under periodic driving, it is necessary to depart from the ideal limit giving rise to invariant structures and work inside near-degenerate manifolds. We show that degeneracy itself is not conclusive and what actually matters is how perturbations, such as structural and driving imperfections, acts on the projected multiplet. For systems decoupling into the local clusters in the ideal limit, the projections can be computed within degenerate perturbation theory. There the stability is decided by two criteria: the coupling can not connect the state with other degenerate partners in the manifold, either by kinetic blocking, or more generally, by diagonalizing the projected coupling, and the drive's local selection rule must admit only transfer energies detuned from Floquet sidebands, in which case the projected drive generator exactly vanishes. We formalize these understandings in a periodically driven clean, short-ranged alternating XXZ chain and demonstrate a set of results that include, long-lived states, both of product form and entangled across the clusters, a periodic family of sideband resonances, and an explicit example showing opposite fates for states with identical energy and charges.
ER -