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arXiv:1802.07952 · Physical Review A

Quantum walks assisted by particle-number fluctuations

Rodrigo A. Vargas–Hernández, Roman V. Krems

Published Aug 3, 2018• 1 citation
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Abstract

We study the spreading of a quantum particle placed in a single site of a lattice or binary tree with the Hamiltonian permitting particle-number changes. We show that the particle-number-changing interactions accelerate the spreading beyond the ballistic expansion limit by inducing off-resonant Rabi oscillations between states of different numbers of particles. We consider the effect of perturbative number-changing couplings on Anderson localization in one-dimensional disordered lattices and show that they lead to decrease of localization. The effect of these couplings is shown to be larger at larger disorder strength, which is a consequence of the disorder-induced broadening of the particle dispersion bands.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.98.022107

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