Understanding multiple timescales in quantum dissipative dynamics: Insights from quantum trajectories

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2402.04524v2
• Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2024 22:05:32 GMT
• Title: Understanding multiple timescales in quantum dissipative dynamics: Insights from quantum trajectories
• Authors: Matthew Gerry, Michael J. Kewming, and Dvira Segal
• Abstract summary: We show that open quantum systems with nearly degenerate energy levels exhibit long-lived metastable states in the approach to equilibrium. This is a result of dramatic separation of timescales due to differences between Liouvillian eigenvalues.
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• Abstract: Open quantum systems with nearly degenerate energy levels have been shown to exhibit long-lived metastable states in the approach to equilibrium, even when modelled with certain Lindblad-form quantum master equations. This is a result of dramatic separation of timescales due to differences between Liouvillian eigenvalues. These metastable states often have nonzero coherences which die off only in the long time limit once the system reaches thermal equilibrium. We examine two distinct situations that give rise to this effect: one in which dissipative dynamics couple together states only within a nearly degenerate subspace, and one in which they give rise to jumps over finite energy splittings, between separate nearly degenerate subspaces. We find, in each case, that a change of basis can often lead to a representation which more naturally captures the impact of the system-bath interaction than does the energy eigenbasis, revealing that separate timescales are associated with separate processes (e.g. decoherence into a non-energy eigenbasis, decay of population correlations to the initial state). This approach is paired with the inspection of quantum trajectories, which further provide intuition as to how open system evolution is characterized when coherent oscillations, thermal relaxation, and decoherence all occur simultaneously.

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