• Accepted Paper

Two-frequency Floquet control of quantum many-body scars in the PXP model

Pinaki Dutta, Kamal L. Panigrahi, and Vishwanath Shukla

Phys. Rev. B - Accepted 8 October, 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/kxxp-csx9

Abstract

Quantum many-body scars enable long-lived coherent dynamics in otherwise thermalizing systems, but controlling their stability under periodic driving remains challenging. We study the PXP model subjected to a continuous two-frequency drive and show that the frequency ratio c=ω2/ω1 acts as a control parameter for the resulting Floquet dynamics. In a rotating-frame description, the drive generates Bessel-dressed couplings in an effective Floquet Hamiltonian whose harmonic content depends explicitly on c. This c-dependent dressing changes the competition between coherent revival dynamics and thermalization. Small integer values of c stabilize scar-induced oscillations down to substantially lower driving frequencies than in the single-frequency limit. At fixed low frequency, small noninteger rational values of c can instead produce isolated suppressions of coherent revivals, an effect that weakens as c increases. Successive Fibonacci rational approximants also reproduce the quasiperiodic dynamics over finite observation times. We further show that two-frequency driving produces tunable rational subharmonic responses in local observables, including higher-order responses that are relatively stable for small c compared with those in the corresponding single-frequency protocol. Our results demonstrate that two-frequency driving provides a route to controlling prethermal nonergodic dynamics and temporal responses in the constrained PXP model.

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