Quantum master equation with balanced gain and loss
Abstract
We present a quantum master equation describing a Bose-Einstein condensate with particle loss on one lattice site and particle gain on the other lattice site whose mean-field limit is a non-Hermitian PT-symmetric Gross-Pitaevskii equation. It is shown that the characteristic properties of PT-symmetric systems, such as the existence of stationary states and the phase shift of pulses between two lattice sites, are also found in the many-particle system. Visualizing the dynamics on a Bloch sphere allows us to compare the complete dynamics of the master equation with that of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation. We find that even for a relatively small number of particles the dynamics are in excellent agreement and the master equation with balanced gain and loss is indeed an appropriate many-particle description of a PT-symmetric Bose-Einstein condensate.
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@article{arxiv.1409.6189,
title = {Quantum master equation with balanced gain and loss},
author = {Dennis Dast and Daniel Haag and Holger Cartarius and Günter Wunner},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.6189},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
7 pages, 6 figures, additions in the text, to be published in Phys. Rev. A