Integrable Quantum Dynamics of Open Collective Spin Models.


Journal

Physical review letters
ISSN: 1079-7114
Titre abrégé: Phys Rev Lett
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 0401141

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
11 Jan 2019
Historique:
received: 05 08 2018
entrez: 24 4 2019
pubmed: 24 4 2019
medline: 24 4 2019
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

We consider a collective quantum spin s in contact with Markovian spin-polarized baths. Using a conserved superoperator charge, a differential representation of the Liouvillian is constructed to find its exact spectrum and eigenmodes. We study the spectral properties of the model in the large-s limit using a semiclassical quantization condition and show that the spectral density may diverge along certain curves in the complex plane. We exploit our exact solution to characterize steady-state properties, in particular at the discontinuous phase transition that arises for unpolarized environments, and to determine the decay rates of coherences and populations. Our approach provides a systematic way of finding integrable Liouvillian operators with nontrivial steady states as well as a way to study their spectral properties and eigenmodes.

Identifiants

pubmed: 31012705
doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.010401
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

010401

Auteurs

Pedro Ribeiro (P)

CeFEMA, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa Av. Rovisco Pais, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal.
Beijing Computational Science Research Center, Beijing 100193, China.

Tomaž Prosen (T)

Department of Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

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