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.
Author: | Timo Palm, Peter Nalbach |
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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): | Es gilt das Urheberrechtsgesetz |