Quantum Bouncer with Dissipation

Effects on the spectra of the quantum bouncer due to dissipation are given when a linear of quadratic dissipation is taken into account. Classical constants of motions and Hamiltonians are deduced for these systems and their quantized eigenvalues are estimated through perturbation theory. Differences were found comparing the eigenvalues of these two quantities.     

Dissipation and Decoherence in a Quantum Oscillator

The time development of the reduced density matrix for a quantum oscillator damped by coupling it to an ohmic environment is calculated via an identity of the Debye-Waller form. Results obtained some years ago by Hakim and the author in the free-particle limit⁽¹⁰⁾ are thus recovered. The evolution of a free particle in a prepared initial state is examined, and a previously published exchange^(5,9) is illuminated with figures showing no decoherence without dissipation. PACS number: 03.75.Ss     

量子无规运动与核耗散

从动力学对称性观点出发考察了量子规则运动与无规运动 .用能级动力学研究了从量子规则运动向量子无规运动的过渡 ,给出了导致能级混沌的条件 ,揭示了造成能级混沌的机制 .用混沌态矢的特征解释了原子核的各态历经集体态的衰变特性 .研究了重离子碰撞中核耗散与动力学对称性破坏之间的关系. Quantum regular and irregular motions are investigated from the viewpoint of dynamical symmetry. The transition from quantum regular motion to chaotic motion is studied by level dynamics and computer experiments. The conditions for onset of quantum chaos are presented.The mechanism for causing chaotic level spectrum is unveiled. The decay behavior of the nuclear ergodic collective states is explained in terms of the peculiar property of chaotic states. The connection between nuclear...     

Geometric Quantum Computing and Dissipation Models

Based on a simple periodical external field model, we investigate the impact of standard Leggett's dissipation on the Berry's phase, which is necessary for any practical implementation of geometric phase gate. It is found that the environmental noise, including the thermal and vacuum parts, could lead to a decaying term in the matrix of Berry's phase, which corresponds to the decoherence process of a qubit as a function of both time and temperature. A new type of two-level-system reservoir is also discussed, it is shown that the decaying term only depends on time, but not on temperature. A concrete case is exhibited by using the 1D Ohmic function.     

Quantum Thermal Amplifiers with Engineered Dissipation

A three-terminal device, able to control the heat currents flowing through it, is known as a quantum thermal transistor whenever it amplifies two output currents as a response to the external source acting on its third terminal. Several efforts have been proposed in the direction of addressing different engineering options of the configuration of the system. Here, we adhere to the scheme in which such a device is implemented as a three-qubit system that interacts with three separate thermal baths. However, another interesting direction is how to engineer the thermal reservoirs to magnify the current amplification. Here, we derive a quantum dynamical equation for the evolution of the system to study the role of distinct dissipative thermal noises. We compare the amplification gain in different configurations and analyze the role of the correlations in a system exhibiting the thermal transistor effect, via measures borrowed from the quantum information theory.     

Quantum damped oscillator I: Dissipation and resonances

Quantization of a damped harmonic oscillator leads to so called Bateman’s dual system. The corresponding Bateman’s Hamiltonian, being a self-adjoint operator, displays the discrete family of complex eigenvalues. We show that they correspond to the poles of energy eigenvectors and the corresponding resolvent operator when continued to the complex energy plane. Therefore, the corresponding generalized eigenvectors may be interpreted as resonant states which are responsible for the irreversible quantum dynamics of a damped harmonic oscillator.     

Quantum Transport and Boltzmann Operators

In this paper the transport of quantum particles in time-dependent random media is studied. In the white noise limit, a quantum model for collisions is obtained. At the level of Wigner equation, this limit is described by a linear Wigner-Boltzmann equation. AMS subject classifications: 35Q40, 35S10, 81Q99, 81V99 á Fredo. Frédéric Poupaud deceased October 13th 2004. This research was partially supported by the EU financed network IHP-HPRN-CT-2002-00282 and by MCYT (Spain), Proyecto BFM2002–00831.     

Time-Dependent Dephasing and Quantum Transport

The investigation of the phenomenon of dephasing assisted quantum transport, which happens when the presence of dephasing benefits the efficiency of this process, has been mainly focused on Markovian scenarios associated with constant and positive dephasing rates in their respective Lindblad master equations. What happens if we consider a more general framework, where time-dependent dephasing rates are allowed, thereby, permitting the possibility of non-Markovian scenarios? Does dephasing-assisted transport still manifest for non-Markovian dephasing? Here, we address these open questions in a setup of coupled two-level systems. Our results show that the manifestation of non-Markovian dephasing-assisted transport depends on the way in which the incoherent energy sources are locally coupled to the chain. This is illustrated with two different configurations, namely non-symmetric and symmetric. Specifically, we verify that non-Markovian dephasing-assisted transport manifested only in the non-symmetric configuration. This allows us to draw a parallel with the conditions in which time-independent Markovian dephasing-assisted transport manifests. Finally, we find similar results by considering a controllable and experimentally implementable system, which highlights the significance of our findings for quantum technologies.     

量子耗散微扰方法的适用性

将微扰量子耗散理论得出的两态线性吸收光谱与严格结果相比较. 所考虑的近似理论为两套完备两阶量子耗散方程,其一为标准的编时微扰方法,另一为所谓的完备二阶驱动耗散耦合方程. 对于两态线性吸收光谱,可以得到解析解,将结果与严格公式比较,来评估这两种方法的适用性和应用范围.     

单光子量子路由的耗散影响

单光子量子路由对于在芯片中实现量子信息交换具有重大意义。研究单光子量子路由中的耗散影响能够更加真实的模拟实际实验的结果。研究发现耗散能级的存在使得同等条件下的量子路由概率减小,并且需要相对较强的耦合才能取得最大量子路由概率。同时,也建立了共振条件下量子路由概率同耦合强度以及耗散强度间的关系。     

Brownian Motion of the Quantum Dissipation in the RWA

A microscopic approach treating the quantum dissipation process presented by Sun and Yu (Phys. Rev. A49 (1994) 592; A51 (1995) 1845) is invoked to construct the wavefunction of the composite system——the model for a harmonic oscillator interacting with a many-oscillator bath under the rotating wave approximation. It shows the back-action of the system on the bath. In particular, the dynamic evolution of the wavefunction for the composite system maintains a factorized form in its wavefunction. In the limited temperature, the reduced density matrix for the system is also calculated to clarify the influence of Brownian motion on the system.     

Quantum Transport of Particles and Entropy

A unified view on macroscopic thermodynamics and quantum transport is presented. Thermodynamic processes with an exchange of energy between two systems necessarily involve the flow of other balancable quantities. These flows are first analyzed using a simple drift-diffusion model, which includes the thermoelectric effects, and connects the various transport coefficients to certain thermodynamic susceptibilities and a diffusion coefficient. In the second part of the paper, the connection between macroscopic thermodynamics and quantum statistics is discussed. It is proposed to employ not particles, but elementary Fermi- or Bose-systems as the elementary building blocks of ideal quantum gases. In this way, the transport not only of particles but also of entropy can be derived in a concise way, and is illustrated both for ballistic quantum wires, and for diffusive conductors. In particular, the quantum interference of entropy flow is in close correspondence to that of electric current.     

基于级联方程的量子耗散半经典方法

We present a semiclassical (SC) approach for quantum dissipative dynamics, constructed on basis of the hierarchical-equation-of-motion (HEOM) formalism. The dynamical components considered in the developed SC-HEOM are wavepackets'' phase-space moments of not only the primary reduced system density operator but also the auxiliary density operators (ADOs) of HEOM. It is a highly numerically efficient method, meanwhile taking into account the high-order effects of system-bath couplings. The SC-HEOM methodology is exemplified in this work on the hierarchical quantum master equation[J. Chem. Phys. 131, 214111 (2009)] and numerically demonstrated on linear spectra of anharmonic oscillators.     

Normal Ordering Solution to Quantum Dissipation and Its Induced Decoherence

We implement the normal ordering technique to study the quantum dissipation of a single mode harmonic oscillator system. The dynamic evolution of the system is investigated for a reasonable initial state by solving the Schrödinger equation directly through the normal ordering technique. The decoherence process of the system for the cases T=0 K and T≠0 K is investigated as an application.     

Quantum Transport on KAM Tori

Although quantum tunneling between phase space tori occurs, it is suppressed in the semiclassical limit for the Schr?dinger equation of a particle in ℝ ^d under the influence of a smooth periodic potential. In particular this implies that the distribution of quantum group velocities near energy E converges to the distribution of the classical asymptotic velocities near E, up to a term of the order . Received: 14 December 1998 / Accepted: 19 February 1999     

等时量子输运理论

在普遍量子情形下,建立了协变Ｗｉｇｎｅｒ函数的能量矩的等时动力论链和链的截断方案,得到了与低阶矩相关的物理密度量的输运方程和约束方程,并且证明高阶矩都能通过低阶矩表示．     

Quantum Dynamics in Noisy Backgrounds: from Sampling to Dissipation and Fluctuations

We investigate the dynamics of a quantum system coupled linearly to Gaussian white noise using functional methods. By performing the integration over the noisy field in the evolution operator, we get an equivalent non-Hermitian Hamiltonian, which evolves the quantum state with a dissipative dynamics. We also show that if the integration over the noisy field is done for the time evolution of the density matrix, a gain contribution from the fluctuations can be accessed in addition to the loss one from the non-hermitian Hamiltonian dynamics. We illustrate our study by computing analytically the effective non-Hermitian Hamiltonian, which we found to be the complex frequency harmonic oscillator, with a known evolution operator. It leads to space and time localisation, a common feature of noisy quantum systems in general applications.