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Quantum recurrence and fractional dynamic localization in ac-driven perfect state transfer Hamiltonians

Quantum recurrence and dynamic localization are investigated in a class of ac-driven tight-binding Hamiltonians, the Krawtchouk quantum chain, which in the undriven case provides a paradigmatic Hamiltonian model that realizes perfect quantum state transfer and mirror inversion. The equivalence between the the ac-driven single-particle Krawtchouk Hamiltonian $\hat{H}(t)$ and the non-interacting ac-driven bosonic junction Hamiltonian enables to determine in a closed form the quasi energy spectrum of $\hat{H}(t)$ and the conditions for exact wave packet reconstruction (dynamic localization). In particular, we show that quantum recurrence, which is predicted by the general quantum recurrence theorem, is {\it exact} for the Krawtchouk quantum chain in a dense range of the driving amplitude. Exact quantum recurrence provides perfect wave packet reconstruction at a frequency which is {\it fractional} than the driving frequency, a phenomenon that can be referred to as fractional dynamic localization.