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Stochastic Wave-Function Simulation of Irreversible Emission Processes for Open Quantum Systems in a Non-Markovian Environment

Quantum Gases 2018-04-04 v2

Abstract

When conducting the numerical simulation of quantum transport, the main obstacle is a rapid growth of the dimension of entangled Hilbert subspace. The Quantum Monte Carlo simulation techniques, while being capable of treating the problems of high dimension, are hindered by the so-called "sign problem". In the quantum transport, we have fundamental asymmetry between the processes of emission and absorption of environment excitations: the emitted excitations are rapidly and irreversibly scattered away. Whereas only a small part of these excitations is absorbed back by the open subsystem, thus exercising the non-Markovian self-action of the subsystem onto itself. We were able to devise a method for the exact simulation of the dominant quantum emission processes, while taking into account the small backaction effects in an approximate self-consistent way. Such an approach allows us to efficiently conduct simulations of real-time dynamics of small quantum subsystems immersed in non-Markovian bath for large times, reaching the quasistationary regime. As an example we calculate the spatial quench dynamics of Kondo cloud for a bozonized Kodno impurity model.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1711.08957,
  title  = {Stochastic Wave-Function Simulation of Irreversible Emission Processes for Open Quantum Systems in a Non-Markovian Environment},
  author = {Evgeny A. Polyakov and Alexey N. Rubtsov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.08957},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

7 pages, 3 figures, ICQT2017 Conference Proceedings; corrected a few typos; accepted for publication in the AIP Conference Proceedings journal

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