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Long-Range Prethermal Phases of Nonequilibrium Matter

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Pith's one-line read Long-range periodically driven systems can host prethermal phases of matter for any power-law exponent $\alpha>d$, including a disorder-free one-dimensional prethermal time crystal.

desk verdict Real new construction, solid numerics; abstract overstates what is proven for d<alpha<2d. read the letter →

arxiv 1908.07530 v2 pith:TRE6VTOI submitted 2019-08-20 cond-mat.stat-mech cond-mat.dis-nncond-mat.quant-gascond-mat.str-elquant-ph

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keywords prethermalizationdiscretetimecrystalslong-rangeinteractionsFloquetphasesofmatterpower-lawemergentsymmetrynonequilibriummany-bodylocalization
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The reading

This paper proves that a periodically driven quantum system whose interactions decay as a power law can host long-lived, non-equilibrium phases of matter before it heats, as long as the decay exponent $\alpha$ exceeds the spatial dimension $d$. Previous proofs of prethermal phases required short-range interactions because the effective prethermal Hamiltonian could only be shown to generate local dynamics in that setting. The paper removes that restriction for $\alpha>2d$ and, under one stated assumption about relaxation, for all $\alpha>d$. It then predicts a disorder-free prethermal discrete time crystal in one dimension for $1<\alpha<2$, a phase that equilibrium physics, many-body localization, and short-range prethermal Floquet systems all forbid. The predicted crystal is distinguished from an MBL time crystal by an energy-density phase transition and an exponentially long but finite lifetime.

What carries the argument

The load-bearing object is a class of range-indexed potentials built from $R$-ranged sets: a set of lattice sites is $R$-ranged if any two of its sites can be joined by a chain of in-set hops of length at most $R$. Hamiltonian terms are organized by range $R_l=e^{\sigma l}$ and weighted by a two-parameter norm that penalizes support size exponentially and spatial range as a power law. Iterating the frame-rotation construction for prethermalization while tracking this norm shows that $D^*$, $E^*$, and $V^*(t)$ inherit the original power-law decay, so the prethermal Hamiltonian stays local in the relevant sense. For $\gamma>d$, this makes a power-law-light-cone Lieb-Robinson bound applicable, which is what upgrades energy conservation to genuine approximation of local observables. For $\gamma<d$, only a short-time estimate follows, and the phase argument rests on the assumption that the system thermalizes to the canonical ensemble of $D^*$.

What would settle it

Prepare the one-dimensional long-range Floquet spin chain described in the paper with $1<\alpha<2$, choose an initial state below the ferromagnetic critical energy density, and measure the period-doubling magnetization and a local observable's evolution for times up to $e^{\omega/J}$. If the exact Floquet dynamics deviate from the evolution generated by $D^*$ on a time scale much shorter than the heating time, or if the period-doubling order decays at the prethermalization time instead of surviving to $\tau_*\sim e^{\omega/J}$, the central claim is falsified. More directly, compare the local reduced state at intermediate times with the canonical ensemble of $D^*$ at the initial energy density; a mismatch in the $d<\alpha<2d$ regime disproves the assumed relaxation.

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Extended reading notes

Core claim

The central claim is that Floquet prethermalization extends to long-range power-law interacting systems: for $\alpha>d$, the system possesses a prethermal Hamiltonian $D^*$ whose energy is conserved for an exponentially long time, and which, for $\alpha>2d$, also correctly generates the dynamics of local observables throughout the prethermal window. For $d<\alpha<2d$, the paper proves only short-time accuracy of local dynamics and assumes that local observables relax to the canonical ensemble of $D^*$ because that state maximizes entropy under the conserved energy. Under that assumption, prethermal phases exist for all $\alpha>d$. The paper further predicts that in one dimension with $1<\alpha<2$, where the prethermal Hamiltonian has a finite-temperature ferromagnetic transition, the driven system realizes a disorder-free prethermal discrete time crystal whose period-doubling order survives until the heating time $\tau_*\sim e^{\omega/J}$, rather than melting at the prethermalization time.

Load-bearing premise

The load-bearing premise is that, for $d<\alpha<2d$, local observables in the prethermal window relax to the thermal equilibrium state of the prethermal Hamiltonian because that state maximizes entropy under the conserved energy; the paper proves only short-time accuracy in this regime, so if that relaxation fails, the existence proof for these phases, including the one-dimensional disorder-free prethermal time crystal, does not go through.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • For $\alpha>2d$, long-range Floquet systems will host prethermal phases whose local dynamics are generated by $D^*$ for exponentially long times, with no disorder or many-body localization required.
  • In finite-size systems, the paper proves prethermal phases for every $\alpha>d$ without the relaxation assumption, provided the drive frequency is large compared with the logarithm of the system volume.
  • A one-dimensional spin chain with interactions $\propto |i-j|^{-\alpha}$, $1<\alpha<2$, should show period doubling that survives until the heating time whenever the initial state has energy density below the ferromagnetic critical value.
  • The prethermal time crystal and the trivial phase are separated by a sharp transition in initial energy density, unlike the MBL time crystal, which exists for generic initial states.
  • Platforms with power-law interactions, such as trapped-ion-style spin chains, can in principle observe the prethermal time crystal without introducing disorder.

Reading between the lines

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

  • If the assumed relaxation in the $d<\alpha<2d$ window is confirmed, the same range-indexed construction should carry other prethermal phases, including symmetry-protected topological order, to long-range interactions.
  • The same technique extends to undriven static systems with a near-integer spectral operator, so a prethermal continuous time crystal should also exist in long-range interacting systems.
  • One clean test of the assumption is to compare the reduced density matrix of a small subsystem under exact Floquet evolution with the canonical ensemble of $D^*$ at the same energy density; agreement only for $\alpha>2d$ and breakdown in $1<\alpha<2$ would mark exactly where the proof relies on unproven relaxation.
  • The two-parameter norm may be useful beyond driven systems, wherever few-body terms act across arbitrarily large distances and one needs separate control of support size and spatial range.
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Referee Report

3 major / 5 minor

Summary. The paper develops an analytic construction of a prethermal Floquet Hamiltonian D* for periodically driven, long-range interacting systems, while keeping track of the spatial locality of the interactions. Theorem 1 provides a locality-preserving rotation such that the driven evolution is exponentially well approximated by X exp(-iD*T). Theorem 2 proves that local observables follow D* throughout the prethermal window when the effective range exponent satisfies gamma* > d, which for two-body power-law interactions corresponds to alpha > 2d. Theorem 3 gives a short-time approximation for d < alpha < 2d, and the paper argues that in this regime local observables should relax to the Gibbs state of D* by entropy maximization under approximate energy conservation. The authors also present Krylov-subspace numerics for a one-dimensional long-range spin chain, reporting a disorder-free prethermal discrete time crystal for 1 < alpha < 2, together with quantum Monte Carlo estimates of the energy-density transition. The abstract and conclusion claim a proof of prethermal phases for all alpha > d.

Significance. If the analytic results are correct, this is a substantial step: it extends the emergent-symmetry framework for prethermal Floquet phases from short-range to long-range interactions, and it explains why a disorder-free one-dimensional prethermal discrete time crystal can exist. The paper's strengths include the explicit R-ranged operator formalism, the improved short-range iteration with n* free of logarithmic corrections, the detailed bounds in Appendices A-D, and the large-scale numerical study with independent QMC input. However, the rigorous proof of local-dynamics approximation is confined to alpha > 2d; the flagship 1 < alpha < 2 prediction rests on an explicitly stated but unproved entropy-maximization/Gibbs-relaxation assumption. The manuscript would be fully appropriate for publication once the claims are restated precisely and the conditional nature of the d < alpha < 2d phase is acknowledged in the abstract and conclusion.

major comments (3)
  1. [Abstract; Sec. II.3; Sec. III.4.3; Conclusion] The headline claim "we prove the existence of non-equilibrium phases ... with power-law exponent alpha > d" is not supported by the theorems as stated. Theorem 2 (Sec. III.4.2, Eq. (40)) requires gamma* > d, which for two-body power-law interactions corresponds to alpha > 2d. In the complementary regime d < alpha < 2d, Theorem 3 (Sec. III.4.3, Eq. (41)) bounds local observables only for m lambda <= C7, i.e. a few periods, and the extension to the full prethermal window explicitly invokes the unproven assumption that local observables relax to the Gibbs state of D* (Sec. II.3; star in Fig. 1(c)). The 1D PDTC prediction lives precisely in 1 < alpha < 2, so the abstract and conclusion overstate the rigorous content. I recommend rewording the claim to "prove for alpha > 2d and predict, under a stated entropy-maximization assumption, for d < alpha < 2d."
  2. [Sec. II.1 and Sec. III.4.3] Even granting the Gibbs-relaxation assumption, the argument that the system exhibits period-doubled magnetization until tau* requires that the prethermal dynamics select a single symmetry-breaking sector of D*. The paper asserts this in Sec. II.1 ("rho can instead approach the equilibrium state within a particular symmetry-breaking sector"), but supplies no argument for why the driven dynamics, which has the symmetric Gibbs state as a fixed point of X exp(-iD*T), breaks this symmetry in the thermodynamic limit within the prethermal window. Since this sector selection is the mechanism underlying the PDTC, it should be explicitly identified as part of the conjecture for d < alpha < 2d rather than presented as an immediate consequence of energy conservation.
  3. [Sec. IV.3; Appendix H; Fig. 4] The numerical inference of an energy-density phase transition in the PDTC is indirect. The quantum Monte Carlo estimate in Appendix H computes the transition for the zeroth-order Hamiltonian D, not for the full frequency-dependent D*, and uses sign-flipped couplings and a modified long-range profile (Eq. (H2)). The comparison in Fig. 4(b) therefore tests whether the onset of exponential tau_TC tracks the transition of D, which is plausible only to the extent that D* is close to D. The paper does not provide a direct numerical construction or estimate of D*'s transition, so the statement that the observed crossover matches the D* transition should be softened or supplemented with a D*-based check.
minor comments (5)
  1. [Appendix A, Eqs. (A32)-(A33)] The bounds on ||V*|| and ||E*|| are written as mu (1/2)^{-n*}, which grows exponentially in n*; from the surrounding text and Eq. (A46) the intended exponent is (1/2)^{n*}.
  2. [Sec. III.2, Eq. (27)] In the geometric-series evaluation following Eq. (26), a factor e^{sigma(gamma - alpha + d)} appears to be missing in the numerator; the numerical value of the bound should be checked.
  3. [Appendix A, Eq. (A14)] Theorem 4 states a bound with norm ||.||_{kappa*,gamma*} although the short-range norm introduced in this appendix has only a kappa parameter; this appears to be a typographical carryover from Theorem 1.
  4. [Sec. IV.2; Fig. 3] The caption and text report that the extracted J_local is larger in the long-range model, but no explicit values or fitting ranges are given; stating the extracted J_local would make the exponential scaling in Fig. 3 quantitatively reproducible.
  5. [Sec. III.4.3, Eq. (41)] The statement "for small enough lambda, m_max > 1, so one can at least accurately describe the dynamics ... during a single driving period" is correct but should be accompanied by the observation that this window is parametrically shorter than the prethermal window tau* ~ 2^{n*}, since otherwise the reader may overestimate what Theorem 3 establishes.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity: the derivation is self-contained and the d < alpha < 2d limitation is explicitly flagged, not assumed into existence.

full rationale

I walked the derivation chain and found no step in which a predicted quantity is equivalent by construction to a fitted input, or in which a load-bearing premise is justified solely by a self-citation. The central analytic result, Theorem 1, constructs D* from the Floquet Hamiltonian via an iterative frame rotation; Theorem 2 then uses long-range Lieb-Robinson bounds to show that local observables follow D* for alpha > 2d. Although the Lieb-Robinson bound is cited to the authors' own prior work (Ref. [80]), that bound is a parameter-free mathematical theorem whose assumptions (finite two-parameter norm with gamma > d) do not include the prethermal result, so it qualifies as independent support rather than circular self-citation. The numerical PDTC lifetime is not fitted to the period-doubling data; it is compared with the independently extracted heating time tau*, and the phase-boundary location is computed separately by quantum Monte Carlo on D (Appendix H), not inferred from Delta M(t). The only significant gap is the regime d < alpha < 2d that contains the 1D PDTC. There the paper explicitly states a limitation rather than hiding it: Sec. II.3 says 'we are not be able to directly invoke such power-law-light-cone Lieb-Robinson bounds' and 'one expects that the approximate conservation of energy density means that local observables still relax to the Gibbs state of D*... Under this assumption, we show...', and Fig. 1(c) marks the row with a star. Theorem 3 in this regime only bounds local dynamics for m lambda <= C7, i.e. a few drive periods, so the existence of prethermal phases for d < alpha < 2d is conditional on the Gibbs-relaxation assumption. That is an openly acknowledged assumption and an overstatement in the abstract's unconditional wording, but it is not a circular reduction: the assumption is not defined in terms of the predicted time crystal, and the paper does not claim to have proven the assumption. Correctness risk from the unproven Gibbs-relaxation step is real and should be weighed separately, but under the circularity rubric the derivation is not circular.

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

The analytic theorem is parameter-free; the numerical model uses specific couplings to illustrate the phase, but the central claim is not fitted to those values. The main external premises are the self-cited Lieb-Robinson bound (Ref. [80]), Dyson's finite-temperature SSB theorem, and the explicit Gibbs-relaxation assumption for d < alpha < 2d.

assumptions (3)
  • standard math The Lieb-Robinson bound for many-body power-law Hamiltonians from Ref. [80] applies to the range-indexed potentials generated by the construction.
    Used in Appendix C to prove Theorem 2. Ref. [80] is by three of the present authors, but it is an independent mathematical theorem, not machine-checked in this paper.
  • domain assumption For d < alpha < 2d, local observables relax to the Gibbs state of the prethermal Hamiltonian D* during the prethermal regime, by entropy maximization subject to conserved energy density.
    Explicitly stated in Sec. II.3 and starred in Fig. 1(c). Needed to extend prethermal phases from alpha > 2d to d < alpha < 2d, including the 1D PDTC.
  • domain assumption D* possesses a finite-temperature spontaneous symmetry breaking phase in 1D for 1 < alpha < 2, inherited from D (the long-range Ising model with additional generic terms).
    Needed for the PDTC. Supported by Dyson's 1969 result for the pure long-range Ising model and by the paper's QMC calculation for D, but D* itself is not directly simulated beyond the high-frequency approximation D* approximately D.

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abstract

We prove the existence of non-equilibrium phases of matter in the prethermal regime of periodically-driven, long-range interacting systems, with power-law exponent $\alpha > d$, where $d$ is the dimensionality of the system. In this context, we predict the existence of a disorder-free, prethermal discrete time crystal in one dimension -- a phase strictly forbidden in the absence of long-range interactions. Finally, using a combination of analytic and numerical methods, we highlight key experimentally observable differences between such a prethermal time crystal and its many-body localized counterpart.

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Figure 3. FIG. 3. Evolution of an L=22 spin chain under the short-range model (left column) and the long-range model. For the latter, [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: FIG. 4 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_4.png]
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Figure 5. Figure 5: FIG. 5. Schematic explanation of the behavior near the [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_5.png]
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Figure 6. Figure 6: FIG. 6. Analysis of the evolution of different single spin operators— [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p026_6.png]
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Figure 7. Figure 7: FIG. 7. Example of the fitting procedure for extracting the decay times for a particular initial state evolved with the long-range [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p027_7.png]
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Figure 6. Figure 6: While the dynamics of σ z in this case are also very well described by D, the same is not true when con￾sidering σ x . We can attribute this to the effect of the small change of frame U; in the original lab frame, the system is really evolving under UD∗U † rather than …
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Figure 8. Figure 8: FIG. 8. Analogous to Fig. 7, but considering an initial state time evolved with the short-range Floquet evolution. As in Fig. 7 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p028_8.png]
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Figure 9. Figure 9: FIG. 9. Evolution of the half-chain entanglement entropy [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p029_9.png]
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Figure 10. Figure 10: FIG. 10. Quantum Monte Carlo calculation exhibiting a [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p030_10.png]

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