Quantum dynamical phase transition in a system with many-body interactions
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
2009-09-29 v3 Chemical Physics
Quantum Physics
Abstract
We introduce a microscopic Hamiltonian model of a two level system with many-body interactions with an environment whose excitation dynamics is fully solved within the Keldysh formalism. If a particle starts in one of the states of the isolated system, the return probability oscillates with the Rabi frequency . For weak interactions with the environment we find a slower oscillation whose amplitude decays with a decoherence rate 1/\tau_{\phi}=1/(2\tau_{\mathrm{SE}% }). However, beyond a finite critical interaction with the environment, , the decoherence rate becomes . The oscillation period diverges showing a \emph{quantum dynamical phase transition}to a Quantum Zeno phase.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0511639,
title = {Quantum dynamical phase transition in a system with many-body interactions},
author = {Ernesto P. Danieli and Gonzalo A. Alvarez and Patricia R. Levstein and Horacio M. Pastawski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0511639},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
5 pages, 3 figures, minor changes, fig.2 modified, added references