Environment and initial state engineered dynamics of quantum and classical correlations

Based on an open exactly solvable system coupled to an environment with nontrivial spectral density, we connect the features of quantum and classical correlations with some features of the environment, initial states of the system, and the presence of initial system–environment correlations. Some interesting features not revealed before are observed by changing the structure of environment, the initial states of system, and the presence of initial system–environment correlations. The main results are as follows. (1) Quantum correlations exhibit temporary freezing and permanent freezing even at high temperature of the environment, for which the necessary and sufficient conditions are given by three propositions. (2) Quantum correlations display a transition from temporary freezing to permanent freezing by changing the structure of environment. (3) Quantum correlations can be enhanced all the time, for which the condition is put forward. (4) The one-to-one dependency relationship between all kinds of dynamic behaviors of quantum correlations and the initial states of the system as well as environment structure is established. (5) In the presence of initial system–environment correlations, quantum correlations under local environment exhibit temporary multi-freezing phenomenon. While under global environment they oscillate, revive, and damp, an explanation for which is given.     

Dynamics of uniform quantum gases, I: Density and current correlations

A unified approach valid for any wavenumber q, frequency ω, and temperature T is presented for uniform ideal quantum gases allowing for a comprehensive study of number density and particle-current density response functions. Exact analytical expressions are obtained for spectral functions in terms of polylogarithms. Also, particle-number and particle-current static susceptibilities are presented which, for fugacity less than unity, additionally involve Kummer functions. The q- and T-dependent transverse-current static susceptibility is used to show explicitly that current correlations are of long range in a Bose-condensed uniform ideal gas but for bosons at T>T_c and for Fermi and Boltzmann gases at all temperatures these correlations are of short range. Contact repulsive interactions for systems of neutral quantum particles are considered within the random phase approximation. The expressions for particle-number and transverse-current susceptibilities are utilized to discuss the existence or nonexistence of superfluidity in the systems under consideration.     

Consequences of minimising pair correlations in fluids for dynamics,thermodynamics and structure

ABSTRACT

Liquid-state theory, computer simulation and numerical optimisation are used to investigate the extent to which positional correlations of a hard-sphere fluid – as characterised by the radial distribution function and the two-particle excess entropy – can be suppressed via the introduction of auxiliary pair interactions. The corresponding effects of such interactions on total excess entropy, density fluctuations and single-particle dynamics are explored. Iso-g processes, whereby hard-sphere-fluid pair structure at a given density is preserved at higher densities via the introduction of a density-dependent, soft repulsive contribution to the pair potential, are considered. Such processes eventually terminate at a singular density, resulting in a state that – while incompressible and hyperuniform – remains unjammed and exhibits fluid-like dynamic properties. The extent to which static pair correlations can be suppressed to maximise pair disorder in a fluid with hard cores, determined via direct functional maximisation of two-body excess entropy, is also considered. Systems approaching a state of maximised two-body entropy display a progressively growing bandwidth of suppressed density fluctuations, pointing to a relation between ‘stealthiness’ and maximal pair disorder in materials.     

Critical point estimation and long-range behavior in the one-dimensional XY model using thermal quantum and total correlations

We investigate the thermal quantum and total correlations in the anisotropic XY spin chain in transverse field. While we adopt concurrence and geometric quantum discord to measure quantum correlations, we use measurement-induced non-locality and an alternative quantity defined in terms of Wigner–Yanase information to quantify total correlations. We show that the ability of these measures to estimate the critical point at finite temperature strongly depend on the anisotropy parameter of the Hamiltonian. We also identify a correlation measure which detects the factorized ground state in this model. Furthermore, we study the effect of temperature on long-range correlations.     

Monogamy of quantum correlations in the one-dimensional anisotropic XXXYYY model

In this paper, the monogamy properties of some quantum correlations, including the geometric quantum discord, concurrence, entanglement of formation and entropy quantum discord, in the anisotropic spin-1/2 XY model with staggered Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya(DM) interaction have been investigated using the quantum renormalization group(QRG) method. We summarize the monogamy relation for different quantum correlation measures and make an explicit comparison. Through mathematical calculations and analysis, we obtain that no matter whether the QRG steps are carried out, the monogamy of the given states are always unaltered. Moreover, we conclude that the geometric quantum discord and concurrence obey the monogamy property while other quantum correlation measures, such as entanglement of formation and quantum discord, violate it for this given model.     

Control of sudden transition between classical and quantum correlations of two strongly driven atoms in dissipative cavities

We investigate analytically the dynamics of classical and quantum correlations between two strongly driven atoms, each of which is trapped inside a dissipative cavity. It is found that there exists a finite time interval during which the quantum discord initially prepared in the X-type states is not destroyed by the decay of the cavities. The sudden transition between classical correlation and quantum discord is sensitive to the initial-state parameter, the cavity decay rate, and the cavity mode-driving field detuning. Interestingly, we show that the transition time can be prolonged significantly by increasing the degree of the detuning.     

Disappearance of quantum chaos in coupled chaotic quantum dots

Statistical properties of the single electron levels confined in the semiconductor (InAs/GaAs, Si/SiO₂) double quantum dots (DQDs) are considered. We demonstrate that in the electronically coupled chaotic quantum dots the chaos with its level repulsion disappears and the nearest neighbor level statistics becomes Poissonian. This result is discussed in the light of the recently predicted “huge conductance peak” by R.S. Whitney et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 102 (2009) 186802] in the mirror symmetric DQDs.     

Dynamical control of electron states in double quantum dot

Controllable electron dynamics in a double quantum dot has been investigated theoretically in the presence of strong sinusoidal electric field and monotonically varied bias voltage, applied to the structure. It is shown that the possibility to create controllable electron states strongly depends on the relation between Rabi frequency and typical reciprocal time of bias change. As follows from theoretical analysis, when time of bias change is the biggest temporal parameter of the problem, electron density can be fully relocated from one quantum dot to another under the action of both resonant sinusoidal field and slowly varied voltage. When the period of Rabi oscillations is much greater than the time of bias change, electron tunneling between two neighboring quantum dots becomes suppressed. In this case electron density stays in the quantum dot that was initially occupied.     

Current correlations for the transport of interacting electrons through parallel quantum dots in a photon cavity

We calculate the current correlations for the steady-state electron transport through multi-level parallel quantum dots embedded in a short quantum wire, that is placed in a non-perfect photon cavity. We account for the electron–electron Coulomb interaction, and the para- and diamagnetic electron–photon interactions with a stepwise scheme of configuration interactions and truncation of the many-body Fock spaces. In the spectral density of the temporal current–current correlations we identify all the transitions, radiative and non-radiative, active in the system in order to maintain the steady state. We observe strong signs of two types of Rabi oscillations.     

Power law decay of correlations in stationary nonequilibrium lattice gases with conservative dynamics

We report computer simulations and high-temperature approximations of the pair correlation in a stationary nonequilibrium system, a lattice gas subject to a strong uniform driving fieldE. The dynamics of the system is given by hoppings of particles to adjacent empty sites with rates biased for jumps in the direction ofE. We study the anisotropic short-distance behavior as well as the long-distance decay properties of the two-point correlations along the principal axes. The simulations as well as the (approximate) expansion in strongly suggest that the correlations in this system have a power law decay,r ^–D for dimensionsD=2 and 3, even at high temperatures.     

Contribution to the dynamics of a deformable interface between two immiscible electromagnetically controllable fluids

We consider the case of a deformable material interface between two immiscible moving media, both of them being magnetizable, stressing the time dependence of the metric at the interface. This introduces a nonlinear term, proportional to the mean curvature, in the surface dynamical equations of mass momentum and angular momentum. That term intervenes also in the singular magnetic and electric fields inside the interface which lead to the influence of currents and charge densities at the interface. Also, we give the expression for the entropy production and of the different thermodynamical fluxes.     

Out-of-equilibrium quantum field dynamics in external fields

The quantum dynamics of the symmetry-broken λ(Φ ²)² scalar-field theory in the presence of an homogeneous external field is investigated in the large-N limit. We consider an initial thermal state of temperature T for a constant external field J. A subsequent sign flip of the external field, J→ - J, gives rise to an out-of-equilibrium nonperturbative quantum field dynamics. We review here the dynamics for the symmetry-broken λ(Φ ²)² scalar N component field theory in the large-N limit, with particular stress in the comparison between the results when the initial temperature is zero and when it is finite. The presence of a finite temperature modifies the dynamical effective potential for the expectation value, and also makes that the transition between the two regimes of the early dynamics occurs for lower values of the external field. The two regimes are characterized by the presence or absence of a temporal trapping close to the metastable equilibrium position of the potential. In the cases when the trapping occurs it is shorter for larger initial temperatures.     

On the dynamics of the q-deformed logistic map

We analyze the q-deformed logistic map, where the q-deformation follows the scheme inspired in the Tsallis q-exponential function. We compute the topological entropy of the dynamical system, obtaining the parametric region in which the topological entropy is positive and hence the region in which chaos in the sense of Li and Yorke exists. In addition, it is shown the existence of the so-called Parrondo's paradox where two simple maps are combined to give a complicated dynamical behavior.     

Time evolution of initially localized states in two-dimensional quantum dot arrays in a magnetic field

The evolution of non-stationary localized states |Ψ(t=0) is investigated in two-dimensional tight binding systems of N potential wells with and without a homogeneous field perpendicular to the plane. Most results are presented in analytical form, what is almost imperative if the patterns are as complex as for rings in a magnetic field, where the qualitatively different features arise depending on rational or irrational numbers. The systems considered comprise finite linear chains (N=2,3), finite rings (N=3–6), infinite chains, finite rings (N=3–6) in a magnetic field, and rings with leads attached to each ring site. The position of the particle at time t is described by the projection of the wave function P_m(t)=|m|Ψ(t)|² onto the localized basis function at site m. For finite chains and rings with N=3,4,6 the time evolution is periodic, whereas it is non-periodic for N=5 and N greater then 6. Rings in a magnetic field show a rich spectrum of different features depending on N and the number of flux quanta through the ring, including periodic oscillation and rotation of the charge as well as non-periodic charge fluctuations.     

The solutions of the generalized classical and quantum harmonic oscillators with time dependent mass, frequency, two-photon parameter and external force: The squeezing effects

The exact analytical solutions of a generalized classical harmonic oscillator with time dependent mass, frequency, two-photon parameter and external forces are obtained. By using the invariance property of the scaled Wronskian, these solutions are used to obtain the solutions of the quantum mechanical counterpart of the oscillator under Heisenberg picture. In order to discuss the applications of these solutions of the quantum mechanical oscillator, we calculate the exact analytical expressions for the second order variances of both the canonically conjugate quadratures in terms of the time dependent mass, frequency and two-photon parameter. However, these variances calculated in terms of the initial coherent state do not depend on the time dependent driven terms. We argued that the time dependent frequency is on the way of the exact analytical solutions and hence it is kept constant throughout the investigation. We, however, discuss few situations of physical interest where the mass is varying in time. The special circumstance where all the parameters are time independent is used to discuss the squeezing effect in both the quadratures. It is seen that the parameter g involving the two-photon interaction term produces squeezing effects. With the increase of interaction time, the squeezing in both the quadrature components exhibit collapse and revival phenomena for g < ω (frequency of the oscillator). The squeezing of X-quadrature is completely ruled out for g > ω. However, the squeezing for P-quadrature is possible for small interaction time. The squeezing patterns of the X and P-quadratures are also discussed for pulsating mass, and for mass increasing with time. The squeezing is also discussed when the mass is increasing exponentially in time. It is envisage that the solutions could be used in the investigation of quantum statistical properties of the radiation field coupled to the said oscillator.     

Classical and quantum dynamics of a kicked relativistic particle in a box

We study classical and quantum dynamics of a kicked relativistic particle confined in a one dimensional box. It is found that in classical case for chaotic motion the average kinetic energy grows in time, while for mixed regime the growth is suppressed. However, in case of regular motion energy fluctuates around certain value. Quantum dynamics is treated by solving the time-dependent Dirac equation with delta-kicking potential, whose exact solution is obtained for single kicking period. In quantum case, depending on the values of the kicking parameters, the average kinetic energy can be quasi periodic, or fluctuating around some value. Particle transport is studied by considering spatio-temporal evolution of the Gaussian wave packet and by analyzing the trembling motion.