Effect of temporal disorder on wave packet dynamics in one-dimensional kicked lattices

Inspired by the recent experimental progress in noisy kicked rotor systems,we investigate the effect of temporal disorder or quasi-periodicity in one-dimensional kicked lattices with pulsed on-site potential.We found that,unlike the spatial disorder or quasi-periodicity which usually leads to localization,the effect of the temporal one is more complex and depends on the spatial configuration.If the kicked on-site potential is periodic in real space,then the wave packet will stay diffusive in the presence of temporal disorder or quasi-periodicity.On the other hand,if the kicked on-site potential is spatially quasi-periodic,then the temporal disorder or quasi-periodicity may lead to a shift of the transition point of the dynamical localization and destroy the dynamical localization in a certain parameter range.The results we obtained can be readily tested by experiments and may help us better understand the dynamical localization.

Dynamical quantum phase transition in XY chains with the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya and XZY-YZX three-site interactions

We study the dynamical quantum phase transitions(DQPTs)in the XY chains with the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction and the XZY-YZX type of three-site interaction after a sudden quench.Both the models can be mapped to the spinless free fermion models by the Jordan-Wigner and Bogoliubov transformations with the form■where the quasiparticle excitation spectraεkmay be smaller than 0 for some k and are asymmetrical■It is found that the factors of Loschmidt echo equal 1 for some k corresponding to the quasiparticle excitation spectra of the pre-quench Hamiltonian satisfyingε_(k)·ε_(-k)<0,when the quench is from the gapless phase.By considering the quench from different ground states,we obtain the conditions for the occurrence of DQPTs for the general XY chains with gapless phase,and find that the DQPTs may not occur in the quench across the quantum phase transitions regardless of whether the quench is from the gapless phase to gapped phase or from the gapped phase to gapless phase.This is different from the DQPTs in the case of quench from the gapped phase to gapped phase,in which the DQPTs will always appear.Moreover,we analyze the different reasons for the absence of DQPTs in the quench from the gapless phase and the gapped phase.The conclusion can also be extended to the general quantum spin chains.