According to Faraday's law in classical physics, a varying magnetic field stimulates an electric eddy field. Intuitively, when a classical field is constant and imposed on a lattice, the Wannier-Stark ladders can be established, resulting in Bloch oscillations. In this work, we investigate the dynamics of an interacting system on a (generalized) ring lattice threaded by a varying magnetic flux. Based on the rigorious results, we demonstrate that there exist many invariant subspaces in which the dynamics is periodic when the flux varies linearly over time. Nevertheless, for a given initial state, the evolved state differs from that driven by a linear field. However, the probability distributions of the two states are identical, referred to as the quantum analog of Faraday's law. Our results are ubiquitous for a wide variety of interacting systems. We demonstrate these results through numerical simulations in an extended Fermi-Hubbard model.

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• Aharonov-Bohm effect
• Quantum-to-classical transition
• 1-dimensional systems
• Extended Hubbard model
• Lattice models in condensed matter