{"id":230202,"date":"2026-01-31T01:19:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T07:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/random-driving-on-a-78-qubit-processor-reveals-controllable-prethermal-plateau"},"modified":"2026-01-31T01:19:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T07:19:21","slug":"random-driving-on-a-78-qubit-processor-reveals-controllable-prethermal-plateau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/random-driving-on-a-78-qubit-processor-reveals-controllable-prethermal-plateau","title":{"rendered":"Random driving on a 78-qubit processor reveals controllable prethermal plateau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/random-driving-on-a-78-qubit-processor-reveals-controllable-prethermal-plateau.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Time-dependent driving has become a powerful tool for creating novel nonequilibrium phases such as discrete time crystals and Floquet topological phases, which do not exist in static systems. Breaking continuous time-translation symmetry typically leads to the outcome that driven quantum systems absorb energy and eventually heat up toward a featureless infinite-temperature state, where coherent structure is lost.<\/p>\n<p>Understanding how fast this heating process occurs and whether it can be controlled has become a challenge in nonequilibrium physics. High-frequency periodic driving is known to delay heating, but much less is known about heating dynamics under more general, non-periodic driving protocols.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time-dependent driving has become a powerful tool for creating novel nonequilibrium phases such as discrete time crystals and Floquet topological phases, which do not exist in static systems. Breaking continuous time-translation symmetry typically leads to the outcome that driven quantum systems absorb energy and eventually heat up toward a featureless infinite-temperature state, where coherent structure [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}