Open quantum dynamics theory for a complex subenvironment system with a quantum thermostat: Application to a spin heat bath

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2111.13277v1
• Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2021 00:06:17 GMT
• Title: Open quantum dynamics theory for a complex subenvironment system with a quantum thermostat: Application to a spin heat bath
• Authors: Kiyoto Nakamura and Yoshitaka Tanimura
• Abstract summary: Complex environments, such as molecular matrices and biological material, play a fundamental role in many important dynamic processes in condensed phases. We describe the dynamics of a two-level system that interacts with a subenvironment consisting of a one-dimensional $XXZ$ spin chain. The hierarchical Schr"odinger equations of motion are employed to describe the quantum thermostat, allowing time-irreversible simulations of the dynamics at arbitrary temperature.
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• Abstract: Complex environments, such as molecular matrices and biological material, play a fundamental role in many important dynamic processes in condensed phases. Because it is extremely difficult to conduct full quantum dynamics simulations on such environments due to their many degrees of freedom, here we treat in detail the environment only around the main system of interest (the subenvironment), while the other degrees of freedom needed to maintain the equilibrium temperature are described by a simple harmonic bath, which we call a quantum thermostat. The noise generated by the subenvironment is spatially non-local and non-Gaussian and cannot be characterized by the fluctuation-dissipation theorem. We describe this model by simulating the dynamics of a two-level system (TLS) that interacts with a subenvironment consisting of a one-dimensional $XXZ$ spin chain. The hierarchical Schr\"odinger equations of motion are employed to describe the quantum thermostat, allowing time-irreversible simulations of the dynamics at arbitrary temperature. To see the effects of a quantum phase transition of the subenvironment, we investigate the decoherence and relaxation processes of the TLS at zero and finite temperatures for various values of the spin anisotropy. We observed the decoherence of the TLS at finite temperature, even when the anisotropy of the $XXZ$ model is enormous. We also found that the population relaxation dynamics of the TLS changed in a complex manner with the change of the anisotropy and the ferromagnetic or antiferromagnetic orders of the spins.

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