Complex coherent quantum many-body dynamics through dissipation
B. Buca, J. Tindall, and D. Jaksch. (2018)cite arxiv:1804.06744Comment: Main text in MS Word (8 pages, 3 figures) and Supplementary material in TeX (8 pages, 2 figures). Main text PDF embedded in TeX.
Abstract
The assumption that physical systems relax to a stationary state in the
long-time limit underpins statistical physics and much of our intuitive
understanding of scientific phenomena. For isolated systems this follows from
the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis. When an environment is present the
expectation is that all of phase space is explored, eventually leading to
stationarity. Notable exceptions are decoherence-free subspaces that have
important implications for quantum technologies. These have been studied for
systems with a few degrees of freedom only. Here we identify simple and generic
conditions for dissipation to prevent a quantum many-body system from ever
reaching a stationary state. We go beyond dissipative quantum state engineering
approaches towards controllable long-time non-stationary dynamics typically
associated with macroscopic complex systems. This coherent and oscillatory
evolution constitutes a dissipative version of a quantum time-crystal. We
discuss the possibility of engineering such complex dynamics with fermionic
ultracold atoms in optical lattices.
Description
[1804.06744] Complex coherent quantum many-body dynamics through dissipation
cite arxiv:1804.06744Comment: Main text in MS Word (8 pages, 3 figures) and Supplementary material in TeX (8 pages, 2 figures). Main text PDF embedded in TeX
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%A Buca, Berislav
%A Tindall, Joseph
%A Jaksch, Dieter
%D 2018
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%T Complex coherent quantum many-body dynamics through dissipation
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1804.06744
%X The assumption that physical systems relax to a stationary state in the
long-time limit underpins statistical physics and much of our intuitive
understanding of scientific phenomena. For isolated systems this follows from
the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis. When an environment is present the
expectation is that all of phase space is explored, eventually leading to
stationarity. Notable exceptions are decoherence-free subspaces that have
important implications for quantum technologies. These have been studied for
systems with a few degrees of freedom only. Here we identify simple and generic
conditions for dissipation to prevent a quantum many-body system from ever
reaching a stationary state. We go beyond dissipative quantum state engineering
approaches towards controllable long-time non-stationary dynamics typically
associated with macroscopic complex systems. This coherent and oscillatory
evolution constitutes a dissipative version of a quantum time-crystal. We
discuss the possibility of engineering such complex dynamics with fermionic
ultracold atoms in optical lattices.
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long-time limit underpins statistical physics and much of our intuitive
understanding of scientific phenomena. For isolated systems this follows from
the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis. When an environment is present the
expectation is that all of phase space is explored, eventually leading to
stationarity. Notable exceptions are decoherence-free subspaces that have
important implications for quantum technologies. These have been studied for
systems with a few degrees of freedom only. Here we identify simple and generic
conditions for dissipation to prevent a quantum many-body system from ever
reaching a stationary state. We go beyond dissipative quantum state engineering
approaches towards controllable long-time non-stationary dynamics typically
associated with macroscopic complex systems. This coherent and oscillatory
evolution constitutes a dissipative version of a quantum time-crystal. We
discuss the possibility of engineering such complex dynamics with fermionic
ultracold atoms in optical lattices.},
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