Full decoherence induced by local fields in open spin chains with strong boundary couplings
Statistical Mechanics
2015-06-23 v1 Mathematical Physics
math.MP
Quantum Physics
Abstract
We investigate an open spin chain driven out of equilibrium by boundary reservoirs targeting different spin orientations, aligned along the principal axes of anisotropy. We show that by tuning local magnetic fields, applied to spins at sites near the boundaries, one can change any nonequilibrium steady state to a fully uncorrelated Gibbsian state at infinite temperature. This phenomenon occurs for strong boundary coupling and on a critical manifold in the space of the fields amplitudes. The structure of this manifold depends on the anisotropy degree of the model and on the parity of the chain size.
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@article{arxiv.1412.7841,
title = {Full decoherence induced by local fields in open spin chains with strong boundary couplings},
author = {Vladislav Popkov and Mario Salerno and Roberto Livi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.7841},
year = {2015}
}
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11 pages, 7 Figures