Prethermalization and thermalization in periodically driven many-body systems away from the high-frequency limit
Prethermalization and thermalization in periodically driven many-body systems away from the high-frequency limit
We investigate a class of periodically driven many-body systems that allows us to extend the phenomenon of prethermalization to the vicinity of isolated intermediate-to-low drive frequencies away from the high-frequency limit. We provide numerical evidence for the formation of a parametrically long-lived prethermal plateau, captured by an effective Floquet Hamiltonian …