Drive-induced many-body localization and coherent destruction of Stark many-body localization

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We study the phenomenon of many-body localization (MBL) in an interacting system subjected to a combined DC as well as a square wave AC electric field.

• First, the condition for the dynamical localization, coherent destruction of Wannier-Stark localization and super Bloch oscillations in the non-interacting limit, are obtained semi-classically.
• In the presence of interactions (and a confining/disordered potential), a static field alone leads to "Stark many-body localization", for sufficiently large field strengths.
• We find that in the presence of an additional high-frequency AC field, there are two ways of maintaining the MBL intact: either by resonant drive where the ratio of amplitude to the frequency of the drive ($A/\omega$) is tuned at the dynamical localization point of the non-interacting limit or by off-resonant drive.