Temperature can enhance coherent oscillations at a Landau-Zener transition |
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Authors: | Whitney Robert S Clusel Maxime Ziman Timothy |
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Institution: | Laboratoire de Physique et Modélisation des Milieux Condensés, UMR, Université Joseph Fourier and CNRS, Grenoble, France. |
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Abstract: | We consider sweeping a system through a Landau-Zener avoided crossing, when that system is also coupled to an environment or noise. Unsurprisingly, we find that decoherence suppresses the coherent oscillations of quantum superpositions of system states, as superpositions decohere into mixed states. However, we also find an effect we call "Lamb-assisted coherent oscillations," in which a Lamb shift exponentially enhances the coherent-oscillation amplitude. This dominates for high-frequency environments such as super-Ohmic environments, where the coherent oscillations can grow exponentially as either the environment coupling or temperature are increased. The effect could be used as an experimental probe for high-frequency environments in such systems as molecular magnets, solid-state qubits, spin-polarized gases (neutrons or He3), or Bose condensates. |
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