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Acta Physica Sinica

Chaos propeties of the time-dependent driven Dicke model

Ni Liu, Liang Jiu-Qing

Published Jan 1, 2017• 2 citations
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Abstract

Now, many different approaches have been presented to study the different semi-classical models derived from the Dicke Hamiltonian, which reflect a fact that the quantum-mechanical spin possesses no direct classical analog. The Hartree-Fock-type approximation is one of the widely used approaches, with which we derive the Heisenberg equations of motion for the system and replace the operators in these equations with the corresponding expectation values. In the present paper, we investigate the role of quantum phase transition in determining the chaotic property of the time-dependent driven Dicke model. The semi-classical Hamiltonian is derived by evaluating the expectation value of the Dicke Hamiltonian in a state, which is a product state of photonic and atomic coherent states. Based on the inverse of the relations between the position-momentum representation and the Bosonic creation-annihilation operators, the Hamiltonian is rewritten in the position-momentum representation and it undergoes a spontaneous symmetry-breaking phase transition, which is directly analogous to the quantum phase transition of the quantum system. In order to depict the Poincaré sections, which are used to analyze the trajectories through the four-dimensional phase space, we give the equations of motion of system from the derivatives of the semi-classical Hamiltonian for a variety of different parameters and initial conditions. According to the Dicke quantum phase transition observed from the experimental setup , we study the effect of a monochromatic non-adiabatic modulation of the atom-field coupling in Dicke model (i.e., the driven Dicke model) on the system chaos by adjusting the pump laser intensity. The change from periodic track to chaotic figure reflects the quantum properties of the system, especially the quantum phase transition point, which is a key position for people to analyse the shift from periodic orbit to chaos. In an undriven case, the system reduces to the standard Dicke model. We discover from the Poincaré sections that the system undergoes a change from the classical periodic orbit to a number of chaotic trajectories and in the superradiant phase area, the whole phase space is completely chaotic. When the static and driving coupling both exist, the system shows rich chaotic motion. The ground state properties are mainly determined by the static coupling, while the orbit of the system is adjusted by the driving coupling. If the static coupling is greater than the critical coupling, the system displays completely chaotic images in the Poincaré sections, and the periodic orbits in the chaos can also be adjusted by the strong driving coupling. While the static coupling is less than the critical coupling, the system can also show the chaotic images by adjusting the driving coupling strength and oscillation frequency. Moreover, by tuning the oscillation frequency, the Poincaré sections may change from the classical orbits to the chaos, and back to the classical orbits in the normal phase of the system.

DOI
10.7498/aps.66.110502

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In this thesis, we explore the Dicke model, well-known for its explanation of the superradiant phase transition and signatures of Classical and Quantum Chaos. We then propose a variational approach to determine the semi-classical (SC) equations of motion, using coherent states. The SC dynamics exhibits signs of classical chaos both with increasing coupling and as the energy of the system is gradually increased, eventually leading to it completely engulfing the 2 dimensional phase space of the pseudospin, which we examine through Poincare sections. We then use numerical diagonalization to study the Quantum Dicke model - it is observed that at and after exactly the critical value of the coupling, the system shows a net macroscopic photon expectation value, and the pseudospin component in the z direction starts to steadily decline - implying a net fraction of the atoms are shifting to the excited state. We then study the dynamics of the Quantum Dicke Hamiltonian using coherent states and compare the expectation values of the dimensional with the classical trajectories from the semi-classical dynamics for stable and chaotic orbits. We then introduce a linear quench which drives the Dicke model across the Superradiant phase transition by changing the coupling strength. The quenched dynamics is simulated using both semi-classical and quantum dynamics - it is seen that dynamically varying quantities are periodically oscillating around their instantaneous steady-state coupling values.
The emergence of chaos in an atom-field system is studied employing both semiclassical and numerical quantum techniques, taking advantage of the algebraic character of the Hamiltonian. A semiclassical Hamiltonian is obtained by considering the expectation value of the quantum Hamiltonian in Glauber (for the field) and Bloch (for the atoms) coherent states. Regular and chaotic regions are identified by looking at the Poincaré sections for different energies and parameter values. An analytical expression for the semiclassical energy density of states is obtained by integrating the available phase space, which provides an exact unfolding to extract the fluctuations in the level statistics. Quantum chaos is recognized in these fluctuations, as a function of the coupling strength, for different regions in the energy spectrum, evaluating the Anderson–Darling (A–D) parameter, which distinguishes the Wigner- or Poisson-like distributions. Peres lattices play a role similar to the Poincaré section for quantum states. They are calculated employing efficient numerical solutions and are a powerful visual tool to identify individual states belonging to a regular or chaotic region, classified by utilizing the Poincaré sections and the A–D parameter. Finally, the quantum Husimi function for selected excited states is shown to have a noticeable similitude with the Poincaré sections at the same energy.
We investigate the quantum-chaotic properties of the Dicke Hamiltonian; a quantum-optical model that describes a single-mode bosonic field interacting with an ensemble of N two-level atoms. This model exhibits a zero-temperature quantum phase transition in the N --> infinity limit, which we describe exactly in an effective Hamiltonian approach. We then numerically investigate the system at finite N, and by analyzing the level statistics, we demonstrate that the system undergoes a transition from quasi-integrability to quantum chaotic, and that this transition is caused by the precursors of the quantum phase transition. Our considerations of the wave function indicate that this is connected with a delocalization of the system and the emergence of macroscopic coherence. We also derive a semiclassical Dicke model that exhibits analogues of all the important features of the quantum model, such as the phase transition and the concurrent onset of chaos.
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The nonintegrable Dicke model and its integrable approximation, the Tavis-Cummings model, are studied as functions of both the coupling constant and the excitation energy. The present contribution extends the analysis presented in the previous paper by focusing on the statistical properties of the quantum fluctuations in the energy spectrum and their relation with the excited-state quantum phase transitions. These properties are compared with the dynamics observed in the semiclassical versions of the models. The presence of chaos for different energies and coupling constants is exhibited, employing Poincar\'e sections and Peres lattices in the classical and quantum versions, respectively. A clear correspondence between the classical and quantum result is found for systems containing between N=80\mathcal{N}=80N=80 and 200 atoms. A measure of the Wigner character of the energy spectrum for different couplings and energy intervals is also presented employing the statistical Anderson-Darling test. It is found that in the Dicke model, for any coupling, a low-energy regime with regular states is always present. The richness of the onset of chaos is discussed both for finite quantum systems and for the semiclassical limit, which is exact when the number of atoms in the system tends to infinite.
The dynamical properties of quantum entanglement in the Dicke model without rotating-wave approximation are investigated in terms of the reduced-density linear entropy. The characteristic time of decoherence process in the early-time evolution is numerically obtained and it is shown that the characteristic time decreases as the coupling parameter increases. The mean entanglement, which is defined to be averaged over time, is employed to describe the influences of both quantum phase transition and corresponding classical chaos on the behavior of entanglement. For a given energy, initial conditions are taken to be minimum uncertainty wave packets centered at regular and chaotic regions of the classical phase space. It is shown that the entanglement has a distinct change at the quantum phase transition, and that the entanglement for regular initial conditions is smaller than that for chaotic ones in the case of weak coupling, while it fluctuates with small amplitude in strong coupling and for chaotic initial conditions.