Abstract
We study the isotropic XY quantum spin chain with a time-periodic transverse magnetic field acting on a single site. The asymptotic dynamics is described by a highly resonant Floquet–Schrödinger equation, for which we show the existence of a periodic solution if the forcing frequency is away from a discrete set of resonances. This in turn implies the state of the quantum spin chain to be asymptotically a periodic function synchronised with the forcing, also at arbitrarily low non-resonant frequencies. The behaviour at the resonances remains a challenging open problem.
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1 Introduction
We investigate the isotropic XY quantum spin chain with a periodically time-dependent transverse external field acting only on one site, namely the \(\kappa \)-th, and free boundary conditions. The Hamiltonian reads
For any \(t\in \mathbb {R}\) and \(N\in \mathbb {N}\), the operator \(H_N(t)\) is self-adjoint on \(\mathcal {H}_N:={\mathbb {C}^2}^{\otimes N}\), and the thermodynamic limit \(N\rightarrow \infty \) is done as customary in the Fock space \(\mathcal {F}:=\bigoplus _N \mathcal {H}_N\). Here, \(\sigma ^x,\sigma ^y,\sigma ^z\) denote the Pauli matrices, \(g,h,\omega >0\) are parameters ruling, respectively, the spin–spin coupling, the magnitude of the external field and its frequency. We assume that \(V(\omega t)\) is a real periodic analytic function with frequency \(\omega \)
The interaction of a small system (the impurity) with an environment (the rest of the chain) while it is irradiated by a monochromatic forcing is a question of primary interest in non-equilibrium statistical physics. Although more complicated systems have been considered [4, 8, 9], quantum spin chains are particularly appealing as they present a rich phenomenology along with a limited amount of technical difficulties. Indeed the lack of ergodicity of such systems has already been object of study since the ’70s [17,18,19,20,21,22,23].
Also, there has been a resurgence of interest in periodically driven systems from the mathematical and theoretical physics community. When the external frequency is high enough compared to the natural frequencies of the system at rest, one can approximate the Floquet Hamiltonian by an effective time-independent Hamiltonian, which governs the asymptotic dynamics [10, 12]. This idea has been exploited mathematically in [3], where the effective Hamiltonian is computed by a KAM-type reduction inspired by [7]. Consequences of this analysis for the behaviour of many-body interacting systems have been examined in [1, 2].
The choice of considering a simple system such as the isotropic XY chain itself simplifies greatly the computations and allows us to perform a very detailed analysis of the dynamics. The motion of an impurity was first analysed in [6] with different forms of time-dependent external fields. In particular in the case \(V(\omega t)=\cos \omega t\), the authors computed the transversal magnetisation of the perturbed spin at the first order in h, observing a divergence at \(\omega = 2g\). The analysis of [11] shows that indeed all the values \(\{2g/k\}_{k\in \mathbb {N}}\) are resonant (i.e. singular) in a sense that will be made clear below. Therefore in this context, it appears natural to distinguish between resonant and non-resonant frequencies more than between high and low ones (even though, since the set of resonant frequencies is bounded, the first characterisation induces the second one). Indeed, combining the results of the present and our previous paper [11], one can conclude that no matter how small the frequency is, away from resonances, the impurity asymptotically undergoes a periodic dynamics synchronised with the forcing. This simple picture breaks down for resonant frequencies, where some new phenomenon can occur.
It is well-known that the isotropic XY spin chain is equivalent to a system of quasi-free fermions on \(\mathbb {Z}\) and therefore the N-particle state is fully described by a one-particle wave function (for more details about this derivation we refer to [5, 6] or more recently [11, 15]). At fixed t, the forcing \(V(\omega t)\) is just a number which we can incorporate into h, and the spectrum is given by the standard analysis of the rank-one perturbation of the Laplacian on \(\mathbb {Z}\) (see [5]). Precisely, as \(N\rightarrow \infty \), we have a band \([-g,g]\) and an isolated eigenvalue given by
The study of the dynamics however is not as simple, because when t varies the eigenvalue moves and can touch the band, so creating resonances. More precisely, the dynamics in the time interval \([t_0,t]\) is governed by the following Floquet–Schrödinger equation on \(\mathbb {Z}\) (again, the details on its derivation and its relation with the many-body system can be found in [5, 6, 11, 15])
Here, \(\delta (x)\) is the Kronecker delta centred in the origin, \(\Delta \) is the Laplacian on \(\mathbb {Z}\) with spectrum given by \(\{-\cos q, q\in [-\pi ,\pi ]\}\), and
where
The Floquet operator \(H_F\) acts as a memory term, accounting for the retarded effect of the rest of the chain on the site \(\kappa \). This equation finds a more compact form in the Duhamel representation in the momentum space. We denote by \(\xi \in [-1,1]\) the points of the spectrum of \(-\Delta \). Moreover with a slight abuse of notation throughout the paper, we will systematically omit the customary \(\hat{\cdot }\) to indicate either Fourier transforms (when transforming in space) and Fourier coefficients (when transforming in time).
Let \(\psi (\xi ,t)\), \(\xi \in [-1,1]\), denote the Fourier transform of \(\psi (x,t)\), \(x\in \mathbb {Z}\). The corresponding equation (1.4) for \(\psi (\xi ,t)\) in its Duhamel form reads
where \(\{W_{t_0}\}_{t_0\in \mathbb {R}}\) is a family of Volterra operators for any \(t>t_0\) and \(\xi \in [-1,1]\), defined via
Let \(L^{2}_\xi C^\omega _t([-1,1]\times [t_0,t])\) denote the space of square integrable functions in \([-1,1]\) and real analytic in the time interval \([t_0,t]\) (mind here the superscript \(\omega \) denoting analyticity as customary, not to be confused with the frequency). Each \(W_{t_0}\) is a linear map from \(L^{2}_\xi C^\omega _t([-1,1]\times [t_0,t])\) into itself. For any \(t_0\), finite \(W_{t_0}\) is a compact integral operator, which ensures the existence of a unique solution for \(t-t_0<\infty \) (see for instance [13]). We denote this one-parameter family of functions with \(\psi _{t_0}(\xi ,t)\). As \(t_0\rightarrow -\infty \), the limit of the \(W_{t_0}\) is an unbounded operator, denoted by \(W_{\infty }\), defined through
One can therefore use \(W_{\infty }\) to define an asymptotic version of equation (1.6) as \(t_0\rightarrow -\infty \)
whose solutions are denoted by \(\psi _\infty (\xi ,\omega t)\): indeed it is easy to check that \(W_{\infty }\) maps periodic functions of frequency \(\omega \) into periodic functions of frequency \(\omega \), thus it is somehow expected to find solutions of (1.9) in this class of functions. Under the following assumption on the frequency, our analysis confirms this idea.
Hypothesis 1.1
We assume that \(\omega >0\) is such that \(\frac{2g}{\omega } \notin \mathbb {N}\).
Remark 1.2
Note that if \(\omega \) satisfies Hypothesis 1.1 above, there is \(\bar{k}\in \mathbb {N}\) such that
Our main result reads as follows:
Theorem 1.3
Let \(\omega >0\) satisfying Hypothesis 1.1 above, and let \(\bar{\upepsilon }\) as in (1.10). There is \(\gamma _0=\gamma _0(\frac{g}{\omega },\bar{\upepsilon },V)\) small enough such that if \(h<\gamma _0\omega \), then there exists a periodic solution of (1.9) with frequency \(\omega \), \(\psi _\infty (x,\omega t)\in \ell _x^2C_t^{\omega }(\mathbb {Z}\times \mathbb {R})\). In particular, \(\gamma _0\) is explicitly computable; see (3.24). Moreover, for all \(x\in \mathbb {Z}\), one has
Remark 1.4
To be more precise, we prove that the spatial Fourier transform of \(\psi _{\infty }(x,\omega t)\) is bounded. This implies that \(\psi _{\infty }\) is square integrable for all t.
Remark 1.5
If \(V_0\ne 0\), we have in general \(\gamma _0\simeq \sqrt{\bar{\upepsilon }}\). To fix the ideas, let us assume the frequency small enough, that is, \(\omega \ll C_0^{\frac{3}{2}}g\), then \(\gamma _0\lesssim \sqrt{\frac{\bar{\upepsilon }\omega }{g}}\). If \(V_0=0\), then our worst estimate of the radius of convergence is \(\gamma _0\lesssim C_0^2\bar{\upepsilon }^2\frac{g}{\omega }\), but this bound improves a bit under a specific assumption on the forcing V. A precise formula for the radius of convergence \(\gamma _0\) is given in (3.24) below.
The main relevance of this result lies in its validity for low frequencies. To the best of our knowledge, a similar control of the convergence to the synchronised periodic state for a periodically forced small quantum system coupled with free fermion reservoirs has been achieved only in [4], for a different class of models. In general, it is known that the low-frequency assumption makes the dynamics harder to study.
On the other hand, the main limitation of the result is that we need to avoid the resonances: the closer \(\frac{2g}{\omega }\) is to an integer, the smaller value of perturbation parameter h is allowed. This in particular prevents us to say anything on the behaviour of the system for resonant frequencies \(\frac{2g}{k}\), leaving the problem open.
In [11], we proved the existence of periodic solutions of (1.9) with frequency \(\omega \) if \(V_0=O \left( \frac{1}{h}\right) \) and h small or if \(V_0=0\), \(\omega >2g\) (high frequencies) and \(h/\omega \) small. The meaning of these conditions is clear: if \(V_0\) is large and h is small, then the eigenvalue does not touch the band; if \(\omega >2g\), then the forcing cannot move energy levels within the band. In particular, the high-frequency assumption appears in other related works in mathematical and theoretical physics [1,2,3, 10, 12, 14].
Note that differently from [11], here we allow also \(V_0\ne 0\) provided that Hypothesis 1.1 holds and h is small enough.
An important step of our analysis is [11, Proposition 3.1], in which we proved that if a periodic solutions of (1.9) \(\psi _\infty \) with non resonant frequency \(\omega \) exists, then \(\psi _{t_0}(\xi , t)\) must approach \(\psi _\infty (\xi ,\omega t)\) as \(t_0\rightarrow -\infty \) for all \(t\in \mathbb {R}\), \(\xi \in [-1,1]\).
Proposition 1.6
Let \(\psi _\infty (\xi ,\omega t)\) a periodic solution of (1.9) with frequency \(\omega \) satisfying Hypothesis 1.1. For any \(t\in \mathbb {R}\), \(\xi \in [-1,1]\), one has
Therefore for non resonant frequencies, the control on the long time behaviour of the solution of (1.6) amounts to establish the existence of a periodic solution of (1.9) for \(\omega <2g\), a condition defining the low frequency regime. This is a genuine PDE question, which is indeed the main focus of this paper.
More specifically, we are facing an unbounded time-dependent perturbation of the continuous spectrum of the Laplacian on \(\mathbb {Z}\). Problems involving periodic forcing are typically dealt via a KAM-approach, namely one tries to reduce the perturbation to a constant operator by means of a sequence of bounded maps. This is for instance the approach adopted in [3, 12] in the context of interacting many-body system, in which a generalisation of the classical Magnus expansion is exploited via normal form methods. Indeed some salient features of periodically driven systems, as for instance pre-thermalisation or slow heating, from the mathematical point of view are essentially consequences of the KAM reduction. A similar approach has been used in [14] for the Klein–Gordon equation with a quasi-periodic forcing. All the aforementioned results are valid if the frequency is large enough, as usual in Magnus expansion approaches.
We cope here with two main sources of difficulty. First, we deal with a perturbation of operators with continuous spectrum. Secondly, the operator in (1.9) is a perturbation of the identity, which makes trivial the homological equation at each KAM step.
Thus, we have to use a different approach. As in [11], we explicitly construct a solution of (1.9) by resumming the Neumann series. More precisely, we formally write the solution to (1.9) as a power series in the small parameter \(h/\omega \); see (2.20). Such expression is plagued by the presence of the terms \(j_{\mu _p}(\xi )\), which may be singular for finitely many values of \(\xi \); see (2.6). The main problem then is that any divergent \(j_{\mu _p}(\xi )\) appears raised to arbitrarily large powers, and this makes the series expansion very singular. (It does not belong to any \(L^p\) space.) For \(\omega >2g\), the function \(j_0(\xi )\) is the only one having a singularity, while when \(\omega \le 2g\), also the function \(j_{\mu _p}(\xi )\) can diverge for \(|\mu _p|\le 2g/\omega \).
We cure these divergences by a suitable renormalisation of the Neumann series, and one major advance of this work is that this is done regardless of the size of the frequency \(\omega \), once small intervals about countably many resonant frequencies are excluded. To do so, we refine the method introduced in [11] in the case of large \(\omega \), which was based on the normalisation of the second-order term of the expansion, taking into account the subtle cancellations induced by the operator at the r.h.s. of (2.2). We stress that thanks to the careful analysis of subsequent Sects. 4 and 5, also in the low-frequency regime resumming the resonances of second order is sufficient to construct a meaningful solution and, from what we can see, no crucial advantages can come from higher-order resummations.
The rest of the paper is organised as follows. In Sect. 2, the main objects needed for the proof are introduced, while in Sect. 3, we prove the existence of a periodic solution of (1.9) with frequency \(\omega \). In Sects. 4 and 5, we prove few accessory results used in Sect. 3. Finally, we attach an “Appendix” in which we sketch the proof of Proposition 1.6.
2 Set-up
It is convenient to define
so that we can rewrite (1.8) as
and hence a periodic solution of (1.9) with frequency \(\omega \) should satisfy
Such a solution will be explicitly constructed.
Note that by Remark 1.2, the \(\inf \) in (1.10) is indeed a \(\min \), and it is attained either at \(\bar{k}=\lfloor 2\alpha \rfloor \), i.e. the integer part of \(2\alpha \), or at \(\bar{k}=\lceil 2\alpha \rceil :=\lfloor 2\alpha \rfloor +1\). Moreover, \(\bar{\upepsilon }<1\).
Recall the formula
The proof of (2.3) can be found for instance in [11, Lemma A.3]. Unfortunately in [11, (A.11)], the \({\text {sign}}(\tau )\) in the imaginary part is mistakenly omitted, whereas it is clear from the proof that it should appear; see also [11, (A.12)].
Set
and let us define \(\xi _0:=1\), \(\xi _0^*:=-1\), and for \(k\in \mathbb {N}\),
Lemma 2.1
For all \(k\ne 0\), one has
Proof
Using (2.3) and (2.4), we have
Let us write
and
Now, we note that since \(\xi \in [-1,1]\), if \(k\ge 1\), then \(\chi (\xi <-1-\frac{k}{\alpha })=0\) and if \(k\le -1\) then \(\chi (\xi >1-\frac{k}{\alpha })=0\). This implies
and
so that the assertion is proven. \(\square \)
Note that by Lemma 2.1, \(j_k(\xi )\) is either real or purely imaginary. On the other hand \(j_0(\xi )\) is always real, while \(j_k(\xi )\) is purely imaginary for \(|k|>2\alpha \).
We conveniently localise the functions \(j_k\) about their singularities. Let \(r>0\) and set
The following properties are proved by straightforward computations.
Lemma 2.2
-
(i)
\(\xi _k=-\xi _{-k}\) and \(\xi ^*_k=-\xi ^*_{-k}\);
-
(ii)
One has
$$\begin{aligned} \min _{\begin{array}{c} |k|,|k'|\le \lfloor 2\alpha \rfloor \\ k\ne k' \end{array}} |\xi _k - \xi _{k'}|=\frac{\bar{\upepsilon }}{\alpha }\,; \end{aligned}$$ -
(iii)
\(\xi _k>0\) if and only if \(k<-\alpha \) or \(0<k<\alpha \).
-
(iv)
One has
$$\begin{aligned} \xi _k>\xi _{k'} \Longleftrightarrow {\left\{ \begin{array}{ll} k'>k>0\\ k<k'<0\\ k'>0, k<0, k'-k>2\alpha \\ k'<0, k>0, k'-k>-2\alpha \\ \end{array}\right. } \end{aligned}$$ -
(v)
If \(|k|>2\alpha \), then \(|\xi _k|>1\);
-
(vi)
For \(k\ge 1\) and \(r\in (0,(4\alpha )^{-1})\), one has
$$\begin{aligned} Lj_k(\xi )= & {} \frac{\chi (\xi _k-r<\xi \le \xi _k)+\mathrm{i}\chi (\xi _k<\xi <\xi _k+r)}{\alpha \sqrt{|(\xi -\xi _k)(\xi +\xi ^*_k)|}}\end{aligned}$$(2.8)$$\begin{aligned} Rj_k(\xi )= & {} \frac{\chi (\xi \le \xi _k-r)+\mathrm{i}\chi (\xi \ge \xi _k+r)}{\alpha \sqrt{|(\xi -\xi _k)(\xi +\xi ^*_k)|}}\, \end{aligned}$$(2.9)and for \(k\le -1\),
$$\begin{aligned} Lj_k(\xi )= & {} \frac{\chi (\xi _k<\xi<\xi _k+r)-\mathrm{i}\chi (\xi _k-r<\xi \le \xi _k)}{\alpha \sqrt{|(\xi -\xi _k)(\xi +\xi ^*_k)|}}\end{aligned}$$(2.10)$$\begin{aligned} Rj_k(\xi )= & {} \frac{\chi (\xi \ge \xi _k+r)-\mathrm{i}\chi (\xi \le \xi _k-r)}{\alpha \sqrt{|(\xi -\xi _k)(\xi +\xi ^*_k)|}}\,. \end{aligned}$$(2.11) -
(vii)
There exist \(c_1,c_2>0\) such that for all \(k\in \mathbb {Z}\)
$$\begin{aligned} \inf _{\xi \in [-1,1]}|Lj_k(\xi )|\ge \frac{c_1}{\alpha \sqrt{r}}\,,\quad \sup _{\xi \in [-1,1]}|Rj_k(\xi )|\le \frac{c_2}{\alpha \sqrt{r}}\,. \end{aligned}$$(2.12) -
(viii)
For \(|k|>2\alpha \) and \(\upepsilon <\bar{\upepsilon }\), one has
$$\begin{aligned} |j_k(\xi )|\le \frac{c_0}{\sqrt{\alpha {\upepsilon }}}\,, \end{aligned}$$(2.13)
Fix \(\upepsilon <\bar{\upepsilon }\) (say \(\upepsilon =\bar{\upepsilon }/2\)) and take \(r\in (0,r^*)\), with \(r^*<\frac{\upepsilon }{4\alpha }\) so that in particular, property (vi) in Lemma 2.2 is satisfied, and moreover, one has
by property (ii) of Lemma 2.2.
Combining a (formal) expansion as a power series in \(\gamma \) and Fourier series in \(\varphi \) (i.e. the so-called Lindstedt series), we can now obtain a formal series representation for the solution of (2.2) which is the starting point of our analysis. Precisely, we start by writing
so that inserting (2.15) into (2.2), we see that the coefficients \(\psi _n\) must satisfy
We now expand
Using that
by a direct computation, we obtain
where we denoted
Therefore, we arrive to write the formal series
which solves(1.9) to all orders in \(\gamma \). Note that for each \(N\in \mathbb {N}\) the coefficient of \(\gamma ^N\) is a sum of singular terms. This makes it difficult (if not impossible) to show the convergence of (2.20), and we will instead prove the convergence of a resummed series which solves the equation.
3 Proof of the Theorem
To explain our construction of the series giving a solution of (1.9), it is useful to introduce a slightly modified version of the graphical formalism of [11], inspired by the one developed in the context of KAM theory (for a review see for instance [16]).
Since our problem is linear, we shall deal with linear trees, or reeds. Precisely, an oriented tree is a finite graph with no cycle, such that all the lines are oriented towards a single point (the root) which has only one incident line (called root line). All the points in a tree except the root are called nodes. Note that in a tree, the orientation induces a natural total ordering (\(\preceq \)) on the set of the nodes \(N(\rho )\) and lines. If a vertex v is attached to a line \(\ell \), we say that \(\ell \) exits v if \(v\preceq \ell \); otherwise, we say that \(\ell \) enters v. Moreover, since a line \(\ell \) may be identified by the node v which it exits, we have a natural total ordering also on the set of lines \(L(\rho )\). We call end-node a node with no line entering it, and internal node any other node. We say that a node has degree d if it has exactly d incident lines. Of course an end-node has degree one. We call reed a labelled rooted tree in which each internal node has degree two.
Given a reed \(\rho \), we associate labels with each node and line as follows. We associate with each node v a mode label \(k_v\in \mathbb {Z}\) and with each line \(\ell \) a momentum \(\mu _\ell \in \mathbb {Z}\) with the constraint
Note that (3.1) above is a reformulation of (2.19). We call order of a reed \(\rho \) the number \(\# N(\rho )\) and total momentum of a reed the momentum associated with the root line.
\(\Theta _{N,\mu }\) denotes the set of reeds of order N and total momentum \(\mu \). We say that a line \(\ell \) is regular if \(|\mu _\ell |\ge \lceil 2\alpha \rceil \); otherwise, we say it is singular. With every singular line \(\ell \), we attach a further operator label \({\mathcal O}_\ell \in \{L,R\}\); if \(\ell \) is singular, we say that it is localised if \({\mathcal O}_\ell =L\); otherwise, we say that it is regularised.
We then associate with each node v a node factor
and with each line \(\ell \) a propagator
so that we can associate with each reed \(\rho \) a value as
In particular, one has formally
Remark 3.1
If in a reed \(\rho \) with \(\hbox {Val}(\rho )\ne 0\), there is a localised line \(\ell \), i.e. if \({\mathcal O}_\ell =L\), then all the lines with momentum \(\mu \ne \mu _\ell \) are either regular or regularised. Indeed if \(\ell \) is localised, then by (2.7), we have that \(\xi \) is r-close to \(\xi _{\mu _\ell }\), and hence it cannot be r-close to \(\xi _\mu \) for \(\mu \ne \mu _\ell \); see also (2.14).
Given a reed \(\rho \), we say that a connected subset \(\mathtt {s}\) of nodes and lines in \(\rho \) is a closed-subgraph if \(\ell \in L(\mathtt {s})\) implies that \(v,w\in N(\mathtt {s})\) where v, w are the nodes \(\ell \) exits and enters, respectively. We say that a closed-subgraph \(\mathtt {s}\) has degree \(d:=|N(\mathtt {s})|\). We say that a line \(\ell \) exits a closed-subgraph \({\mathtt {s}}\) if it exits a node in \(N(\mathtt {s})\) and enters either the root (so that \(\ell \) is the root line) or a node in \(N(\rho )\setminus N(\mathtt {s})\). Similarly, we say that a line enters \(\mathtt {s}\) if it enters a node in \(N(\mathtt {s})\) and exits a node in \(N(\rho )\setminus N(\mathtt {s})\). We say that a closed-subgraph \(\mathtt {s}\) is a resonance if it has an exiting line \(\ell _{\mathtt {s}}\) and an entering line \(\ell _{\mathtt {s}}'\), both \(\ell _{\mathtt {s}}\) and \(\ell _{\mathtt {s}}'\) are localised (so that in particular by Remark 3.1, the exiting and entering lines of a resonance must carry the same momentum), while all lines \(\ell \in L(\mathtt {s})\) have momentum \(\mu _{\ell }\ne \mu _{\ell _{\mathtt {s}}} \).
Note that by (3.1), one has
We denote by \({\mathcal T}_{d,\mu }\) the set of resonances with degree d and entering and exiting lines with momentum \(\mu \). Note that if \(d=1\), then \({\mathcal T}_{1,\mu }\) is constituted by a single node v with mode \(k_v=0\).
Let us set
where we define the value of a resonance \(\mathtt {s}\) as in (3.4) but with the products restricted to nodes and lines in \(\mathtt {s}\), namely
Next, we proceed with the proof, which we divide into several steps.
Proof
(Step 1: resummation.) The idea behind resummation can be roughly described as follows. The divergence of the sum in (3.5) is due to the presence of localised lines (and their possible accumulation). If a reed \(\rho _0\in \Theta _{N,\mu }\) has a localised line \(\ell \), say exiting a node v, then we can consider another reed \(\rho _1\in \Theta _{N+1,\mu }\) obtained from \(\rho _0\) by inserting an extra node \(v_1\) with \(k_{v_1}=0\) and an extra localised line \(\ell '\) between \(\ell \) and v, i.e. \(\rho _1\) has an extra resonace of degree one. Of course, while \(\rho _0\) is a contribution to \(\psi _N(\varphi )\), \(\rho _1\) is a contribution to \(\psi _{N+1}(\varphi )\), so when (formally) considering the whole sum, the value of \(\rho _1\) will have an extra factor \((-\mathrm{i}\gamma )\). In other words, in the formal sum (2.20), there will be a term of the form
Of course, we can indeed insert any chain of resonances of degree one, say of length p, so as to obtain a reed \(\rho _p\in \Theta _{N+p,\mu }\), and when summing their values together we formally have
In other words, we formally replace the sum over N of the sum of reeds in \(\Theta _{N,\mu }\) with the sum of reeds where no resonance of degree one appear, but with the localised propagators replaced with
Clearly in principle, we can perform this formal substitution considering resonances of any degree. Here, it is enough to consider resummations only of resonances of degree one and two. The advantage of such a formal procedure is that the localised propagators do not appear anymore. However, since the procedure is only formal, one has to prove not only that the new formally defined object is indeed well-defined, but also that it solves (2.2).
Having this in mind, let \(\Theta ^{{\mathcal R}}_{N,\mu }\) be the set of reeds in which no resonance of deree 1 nor 2 appear, and define
\(\square \)
In Sect. 4, we prove the following result.
Proposition 3.2
For all \(\mu \in \mathbb {Z}\cap [-2\alpha ,2\alpha ]\) and for
where c is a suitable absolute constant, one has
Proposition 3.2 allows us to set
For any \(\rho \in \Theta ^{{\mathcal R}}_{N,\mu }\), let us define the renormalised value of \(\rho \) as
where
In particular, if \(\lfloor 2\alpha \rfloor =0\), we have to renormalise only \(j_0\), which is the case in our previous paper [11]. Then, we define
so that
is the renormalised series we want to prove to be a regular solution of (2.2).
Proof
(Step 2: radius of convergence.) First of all, we prove that the function (3.15) is well-defined.
We start by noting that the node factors are easily bounded by (1.2). The propagators defined in (3.13) are bounded as follows. If \(|\mu _\ell |\ge \lceil 2\alpha \rceil \) formula (2.13) yields
while for \(|\mu |\le \lfloor 2\alpha \rfloor \), by (2.12), we have
Regarding the resummed propagators, the bound is more delicate. We start by denoting
and
\(\square \)
In Sect. 5, we prove the following result.
Proposition 3.3
There is a constant \(c>0\) such that
Let us set now
Note that if in a reed \(\rho \in \Theta ^{\mathcal R}_{N,\mu }\) there are l localised lines, we have
for some constant \(C_0>0\). By construction, in a renormalised reed, there must be at least two lines between two localised lines, since we resummed the resonances of degree one and two. This implies that a reed with N nodes can have at most \(l=\lceil N/3\rceil \) localised lines.
Then by (3.14), we obtain
so that the series above converge for
This entails
Therefore, under such smallness condition on \(\gamma \), the function \(\psi ^{\mathcal R}(\varphi ;\xi ,\gamma )\) (recall (3.15)) is analytic w.r.t. \(\varphi \in \mathbb {T}\), uniformly in \(\xi \in [-1,1]\) and for \(\gamma \) small enough
Choosing \(\upepsilon =\overline{\upepsilon }/2\) and \(r:=\frac{\upepsilon }{8\alpha }\), we have by (3.19)
so that condition (3.23) implies that the series converges for \(\gamma \le \gamma _0:=c_1\gamma _1\) where
and \(c_1:=\min \{c,c^{-1}\}\).
Proof
(Step 3: \(\psi ^{\mathcal R}(\varphi ;\xi ,\gamma )\) solves (2.2).) Now, we want to prove that
This is essentially a standard computation. Using (3.14) and (3.15), the last equation can be rewritten as
Moreover, thanks to (2.17), we can compute
Thus, we can write (3.25) in terms of Fourier coefficients as
Note that the root line \(\ell \) of a reed has to be renormalised only if it carries momentum label \(|\mu _\ell |\le \lfloor {2\alpha }\rfloor \) and operator \({\mathcal O}_\ell =L\); thus for \(|\mu _\ell |\ge \lceil {2\alpha }\rceil \), or \(|\mu _\ell |\le \lfloor 2\alpha \rfloor \) and \({\mathcal O}_\ell =R\), we see immediately that (3.26) holds.
Concerning the case \(\mu _\ell =\mu \) with \(|\mu |\le \lfloor 2\alpha \rfloor \) and \({\mathcal O}_\ell =L\), we first note that
where \(\overline{\Theta }^{\mathcal R}_{N,\mu }\) is the set of reeds such that the root line may exits a resonance of degree \(\le 2\), so that equation (3.26) reads
Let us split
where \(\hat{\Theta }^{\mathcal R}_{N,\mu }\) are the reeds such that the root line indeed exits a resonance of degree \(\le 2\), while \(\widetilde{\Theta }^{\mathcal R}_{N,\mu }\) is the set of all other renormalised reeds. Therefore, we have
and
so that summing together (3.29) and (3.30), we obtain \(\psi ^{\mathcal R}_\mu (\xi ;\gamma )\). \(\square \)
This concludes the proof of the Theorem.
4 Proof of Proposition 3.2
In this section, we prove Proposition 3.2. We will consider explicitly the case \(\mu \in \mathbb {N}\), since negative \(\mu \) are dealt with in a similar way.
Set for brevity
and note that we can write
The next two lemmas establish useful properties of the functions \(G_{\mu ,k}(\xi )\) and \(A_{\mu ,k}(\xi )\).
Lemma 4.1
Let \(k\in \mathbb {N}\) and r sufficiently small. One has
Proof
By explicit calculation
so we can conclude by continuity. \(\square \)
Lemma 4.2
If \(\xi \in (\xi _\mu ,\xi _\mu +r)\), one has
If \(\xi \in (\xi _\mu -r,\xi _\mu ]\), one has
Proof
Since we are considering the case \(\mu \ge 1\), \(Lj_\mu (\xi )\) is given by (2.8). Our analysis of \(G_{\mu ,k}(\xi )\) splits in several cases.
i) \(1\le k\le \mu \)
In this case, \(\mu -k\ge 0\) and \(\xi _{\mu +k}<\xi _\mu <\xi _{\mu -k}\). By (2.9), we write
A direct computation gives
ii) \(\mu +1\le k\le \lfloor 2\alpha \rfloor \)
Now, \(\mu -k<0\) and \(\max (\xi _{\mu +k},\xi _{\mu -k})<\xi _\mu \). Therefore by (2.11), (2.9)
Moreover,
iii) \(k\ge \lceil 2\alpha \rceil \) We have \(\mu -k<0\), \(\xi _{\mu +k}<\xi _\mu <\xi _{\mu -k}\) and again
Therefore,
Note that for \(\xi \notin (\xi _\mu -r,\xi _\mu +r)\), all \(G_{\mu ,k}\) are identically zero, and by direct inspection, we deduce (4.7), (4.8), (4.9) and (4.10). \(\square \)
Let us introduce the notation
Note that \(K_1(\xi )\) can vanish if and only if \(V_k=0\) for all \(|k|\le \lfloor 2\alpha \rfloor \) (that is \(\underline{V}_{\le 2\alpha }=0\)). Similarly, \(K_2(\xi )\) can vanish if and only if \(V_k=0\) for all \(|k|> \lfloor 2\alpha \rfloor \) (i.e. \(\overline{V}_{>2\alpha }=0\)), while \(\widetilde{K}_2(\xi )\) can vanish if and only if the forcing is constant in time, i.e. \(V(\omega t)\equiv V_0\).
Recall the notations introduced in (3.16)–(3.17). We need the following bounds on \(K_1(\xi )\), \(K_2(\xi )\) and \(\widetilde{K}_2(\xi )\).
Lemma 4.3
There is \(c>0\) such that for all \(\mu \in \mathbb {Z}\) and all \(\xi \in (\xi _\mu -r,\xi _\mu +r)\) if \(K_1(\xi )\ne 0\), then one has
Proof
By the Lipschitz continuity of \(D^{-1}_{\mu -k}(\xi )\) in \((\xi _\mu -r,\xi _\mu +r)\), there is \(c_1\ge 0\) such that for all \(\xi \in (\xi _\mu -r,\xi _\mu +r)\), we have
Furthermore, since \(r\in (0,\frac{\upepsilon }{2\alpha })\) and
we have
for some constants \(C_1,C_2,C_3>0\). Similarly,
so the assertion follows. \(\square \)
Lemma 4.4
There is \(c>0\) such that for all \(\mu \in \mathbb {Z}\) and all \(\xi \in (\xi _\mu -r , \xi _\mu +r)\) if \(K_2(\xi )\ne 0\), then one has
Proof
We use again the Lipschitz continuity of \(D^{-1}_{\mu \pm k}(\xi )\) in \((\xi _\mu -r,\xi _\mu +r)\) to obtain that there is \(c\ge 0\) such that for all \(\xi \in (\xi _\mu -r,\xi _\mu +r)\), one has
and hence for all \(\xi \in (\xi _\mu -r,\xi _\mu +r)\)
Now, we have by (4.6)
and similarly, if \(\hat{k}\) denotes the Fourier mode at which the max in (3.17) is attained, we have
so the assertion follows combining the latter two with (4.20). \(\square \)
Remark 4.5
Note that if \(V_{\lceil 2\alpha \rceil }\ne 0\), there is a further \(1/\sqrt{\upepsilon }\) in the lower bound in (4.194.21).
Lemma 4.6
There is \(c>0\) such that for all \(\mu \in \mathbb {Z}\) and all \(\xi \in (\xi _\mu -r , \xi _\mu +r)\) if \(\widetilde{K}_2(\xi )\ne 0\), then one has
Proof
The lower bound follows exactly as the lower bound in Lemma 4.4. As for the upper bound, we simply add to the upper bound for \(K_2(\xi )\) the quantity
so the assertion follows. \(\square \)
Now, we are in position to prove Proposition 3.2.
Proof of Proposition 3.2
The case \(\mu =0\) is easier and can be studied separately. Indeed by a direct computation, we see that
In particular, \(\mathrm{Re}( G_{0,k}(\xi ))>0\) for all \(k\in \mathbb {Z}\), so that by (4.4), we have
Now, we study the case \(\mu \ge 1\). If \(\xi \in (\xi _\mu -r,\xi _\mu ]\) by Lemma 4.2, we see that
which entails
For all \(\xi \in (\xi _\mu ,\xi _\mu +r)\), we claim that
for \(\gamma \) small enough. To prove it, we use again Lemma 4.2.
We have
Now if
we have
while if
then
and moreover using Lemmata 4.3 and 4.6, we have also
But then
which is obvious if \(V_0\ge 0\), while if \(V_0<0\), we need to impose
where c is the constant appearing in Lemma 4.6, in order to obtain
Thus, the assertion follows. \(\square \)
5 Proof of Proposition 3.3
Here, we prove Proposition 3.3.
Proof of Proposition 3.3
First of all we note that by (2.7) and (3.11), we have
Note that
So thanks to Lemma 4.2 and using the notation in (4.17), we can write
Therefore,
whence
with
To estimate \(d(\xi )\) and \(s(\xi )\), we treat separately the cases \(V_0=0\) and \(V_0\ne 0\). Moreover for the first case, we consider two sub-cases, namely either \(\underline{V}_{\le 2\alpha }\ne 0\) or \(\underline{V}_{\le 2\alpha }=0\).
Case I.1: \(\underline{V_0=0}\), \(\underline{V_{\le 2\alpha }\ne 0}\). By Lemma 4.3, there is a constant \(c>0\) such that
Case I.2: \(\underline{V_0=0}\), \(\underline{ V_{\le 2\alpha }=0}\). In this case, \(K_1(\xi )=0\). On the other hand by Lemma 4.4, there is a constant \(c>0\) such that
Combining (5.1), (5.3), (5.6), (5.7), (5.8), (5.9) gives the second line of (3.18).
Case II: \(\underline{V_0\ne 0}\). We have
The last inequality is always satisfied if \(\overline{V}_{>2\alpha }=0\), while otherwise, we need to require
by Lemma 4.4.
Combining (5.1), (5.3), (5.10), (5.11), and (5.12), the result follows. \(\square \)
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Appendix A. Proof of Proposition 1.6
Appendix A. Proof of Proposition 1.6
In this “Appendix”, we give a brief account on how to prove Proposition 1.6. We just outline the strategy and for most of the details we refer to our previous paper [11]. We consider only the case \(V_0=0\), which is the most difficult case.
For any function \(F=F(t,x_1,x_2,\ldots )\), we write
for some \(C_1,C_2>0\).
Let us set for brevity
By (1.6) and (1.9), we readily obtain the following equation:
where
Therefore, we have to prove that for any \(\omega \) satisfying Hypothesis 1.1, there are \(C_1,C_2>0\) such that
We write (here \(\psi _{\infty , \mu }\) denotes the \(\mu \)-th Fourier coefficient of \(\psi _\infty \))
where the last line is understood as the definition of the coefficients \(q^{[0]}_k(t,t_0,\xi ,\omega )=q_k^{[0]}\).
The first property to establish is the decay of \(q^{[0]}\). This is done first singularly on each coefficient \(q_k^{[0]}\), and then promoted to \(q^{[0]}\) by analyticity. Using [11, Lemma A.6], we compute
where \(c(g)>0\) is a constant. The divergences appearing in the above formula get however cancelled. Indeed we observe by (1.9)
so the divergences of
must coincide with the zeros of \((\psi _{\infty }*V)_k\), and we can write
whence
is bounded with the desired decay. (Notice that the denominator can be computed as in (2.3).) We obtain
Next, we invert the compact operator \(\mathbb {1}+\mathrm{i}h W_{t_0}\) in a standard way. It suffices to prove that successive applications of \(W_{t_0}\) preserve the decay of \(q^{[0]}\). To this end, we define
and represent (see [11, Lemma 3.4])
Combining (A.7) with the last definition, we get
To evaluate the inner integral, we use [11, Lemma A.6] according to which
The first case never occurs, since \(|\omega (k-\mu )|=2g\) is excluded by (1.10) and \(\omega (k-\mu )=0\) since we are considering the case \(V_0=0\). Therefore,
and again one can promote the decay to the entire expansion (A.8) by analyticity.
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Corsi, L., Genovese, G. Long Time Behaviour of a Local Perturbation in the Isotropic XY Chain Under Periodic Forcing. Ann. Henri Poincaré 23, 1555–1581 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00023-021-01128-y
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