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Suppressing relaxation through dephasing

  • We study the nonequilibrium dynamics of a quantum system under the influence of two noncommuting fluctuation sources, i.e., purely dephasing fluctuations and relaxational fluctuations. We find that increasing purely dephasing fluctuations suppress increasing relaxation in the quantum system. This effect is further enhanced when both fluctuation sources are fully correlated. These effects arise for medium to strong primary fluctuations already when the secondary fluctuations are weak due to their noncommuting coupling to the quantum system. Dephasing, in contrast, is increased by increasing any of the two fluctuations. Fully correlated fluctuations result in overdamping at much lower system-bath coupling than uncorrelated noncommuting fluctuations. In total, we observe that treating subdominant secondary environmental fluctuations perturbatively leads, as neglecting them, to erroneous conclusions.

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Author:Timo Palm, Peter Nalbach
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.103.022206
ISSN:2469-9926
Parent Title (English):Physical Review A. Atomic, molecular, and optical physics
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2022/01/18
Year of first Publication:2021
Publishing Institution:Westfälische Hochschule Gelsenkirchen Bocholt Recklinghausen
Release Date:2022/01/18
Tag:noncommuting fluctuations; quantum dissipation
Volume:103
Issue:2
First Page:Artikelnr. 022206
Departments / faculties:Fachbereiche / Wirtschaft und Informationstechnik Bocholt
Licence (German):License LogoEs gilt das Urheberrechtsgesetz

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