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Effect of bath temperature on the decoherence of quantum dissipative systems

Quantum Physics 2016-12-22 v2

Abstract

We report an anomalous decoherence phenomenon of a quantum dissipative system in the framework of a stochastic decoupling scheme along with a hierarchical equations-of-motion formalism without the usual Born-Markov or weak coupling approximations. It is found that the decoherence of a two-qubit spin-boson model can be reduced by increasing the bath temperature in strong-coupling regimes. For the weak-coupling situation, we find that the bath temperature may enhance the decoherence. This result is contrary to the common recognition that a higher bath temperature always induces a more severe decoherence and suggests that a decoherence dynamical transition occurs in this two-qubit spin-boson model. We also demonstrate that the critical transition point can be characterized by the behavior of the frequency spectrum of the quantum coherence indicator.

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@article{arxiv.1612.05338,
  title  = {Effect of bath temperature on the decoherence of quantum dissipative systems},
  author = {Wei Wu and Hai-Qing Lin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.05338},
  year   = {2016}
}