title: Phase transitions in periodically driven macroscopic systems.
abstract: We study the large-time behavior of a class of periodically driven macroscopic systems. We find, for a certain range of the parameters of either the system or the driving fields, the time-averaged asymptotic behavior effectively is that of certain other equilibrium systems. We then illustrate with a few examples how the conventional knowledge of the equilibrium systems can be made use of in choosing the driving fields to engineer new phases and to induce new phase transitions.
authors.affiliation: Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Homi Bhabha Road, Mumbai 400 005, India.
authors.forename: Sreedhar B
authors.initials: SB
authors.lastname: Dutta