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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 ω0\omega_{0}. For weak interactions with the environment 1/τSE<2ω0,1/\tau_{\mathrm{SE}}<2\omega_{0}, 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, 1/τSE>2ω01/\tau_{\mathrm{SE}}>2\omega_{0}, the decoherence rate becomes 1/τϕ(ω02)τSE1/\tau_{\phi}\propto(\omega_{0}^{2})\tau_{\mathrm{SE}}. The oscillation period diverges showing a \emph{quantum dynamical phase transition}to a Quantum Zeno phase.

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@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

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