We study the open system dynamics of a harmonic oscillator coupled with an artificially engineered reservoir. We single out the reservoir and system variables governing the passage between Lindblad type and non-Lindblad type dynamics of the reduced system's oscillator. We demonstrate the existence of conditions under which virtual exchanges of energy between system and reservoir take place. We propose to use a single trapped ion coupled to engineered reservoirs in order to simulate quantum Brownian motion.
@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0307231,
title = {Simulating quantum Brownian motion with single trapped ions},
author = {S. Maniscalco and J. Piilo and F. Intravaia and F. Petruccione and A. Messina},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0307231},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
9 pages, 2 figures. Version 2 focused on the experimental proposal for simulating QBM