Probabilistic Hysteresis in an Isolated Quantum System: The Microscopic Onset of Irreversibility from a Quantum Perspective

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2003.11887v1
• Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2020 13:26:22 GMT
• Title: Probabilistic Hysteresis in an Isolated Quantum System: The Microscopic Onset of Irreversibility from a Quantum Perspective
• Authors: Ralf B\"urkle, James R. Anglin
• Abstract summary: We focus on the full quantum mechanical description of the integrable system. For a slow but finite sweep rate we find a broad regime where the quantum results agree with the semiclassical results. For a single initial energy eigenstate we find in contrast that the backward sweep reveals strong quantum effects even for very large particle numbers.
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• Abstract: Recently probabilistic hysteresis in isolated Hamiltonian systems of ultracold atoms has been studied in the limit of large particle numbers, where a semiclassical treatment is adequate. The origin of irreversibility in these sweep experiments, where a control parameter is slowly (adiabatically) tuned back and forth, turned out to be a passage blue back and forth across a separatrix (integrable case) or a passage in and out of a chaotic sea in phase space (chaotic case). Here we focus on the full quantum mechanical description of the integrable system and show how the semiclassical results emerge in the limit of large particle numbers. Instead of the crossing of a separatrix in phase space, where classical adiabaticity fails, the origin of irreversibility in the quantum system is a series of avoided crossings of the adiabatic energy levels: they become so close that already for modest particle numbers the change of the external parameter has to be unrealistically slow to reach the quantum adiabatic limit of perfectly reversible evolution. For a slow but finite sweep rate we find a broad regime where the quantum results agree with the semiclassical results, but only if besides the limit $N\to \infty$ an initial ensemble of states is considered, with sufficient initial energy width. For a single initial energy eigenstate we find in contrast that the backward sweep reveals strong quantum effects even for very large particle numbers.

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