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Journal of the Physical Society of Japan

Dynamical Processes in Exactly Solvable Quantum Mechanical Systems I.

Sachiko Kitajima, Fumiaki Shibata

Published Jan 1, 2000• 14 citations
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Abstract

Decoherence and relaxation processes in quantum systems are studied on the basis of an exactly solvable model. That is, a generalized Coleman-Hepp model is analyzed in a framework of a spin coherent state representation which enables us to determine time evolution of the whole system as successive applications of rotation operators. A density matrix of the whole system and reduced density matrices of constituent subsystems are obtained to yield quasi-probability densities and averages of observables of an incident particle and a detector (reservoir) system. Numerical evaluation of these quantities is performed to find decoherence like phenomena for larger values of N (a number of detector spins) and S l (magnitude of a detector spin). An appearance of a mixed state (i.e., vanishing of off-diagonal elements of a reduced matrix) is explicitly shown when N and/or S l become infinity. Namely, this occurs in the thermodynamic limit ( N →∞) and/or in the classical apparatus limit ( S l →∞).

DOI
10.1143/jpsj.69.73

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Exactly solvable models provide an opportunity to study different aspects of reduced quantum dynamics in detail. We consider the reduced dynamics of a single spin in finite XX and XY spin 1/2 chains. First we introduce a general expression describing the evolution of the reduced density matrix. This expression proves to be tractable when the combined closed system (i.e. open system plus environment) is integrable. Then we focus on comparing decoherence and thermalization timescales in the XX chain. We find that for a single spin these timescales are comparable, in contrast to what should be expected for a macroscopic body. This indicates that the process of quantum relaxation of a system with few accessible states can not be separated in two distinct stages - decoherence and thermalization. Finally, we turn to finite-size effects in the time evolution of a single spin in the XY chain. We observe three consecutive stages of the evolution: regular evolution, partial revivals, irregular (apparently chaotic) evolution. The duration of the regular stage is proportional to the number of spins in the chain. We observe a "quiet and cold period" in the end of the regular stage, which breaks up abruptly at some threshold time.
The quantum dynamics of many-electron spin systems is investigated using a reduced-density-matrix description. Applications of interest include trapped atomic systems in optical lattices, semiconductor quantum dots, and vacancy defect centers in solids. Complimentary time-domain (equation-of-motion) and frequency-domain (resolvent-operator) formulations are self-consistently developed. The general non-perturbative and non-Markovian formulations provide a fundamental framework for systematic evaluations of corrections to the standard Born (lowest-order-perturbation) and Markov (short-memory-time) approximations. Particular attention is given to decoherence and relaxation processes, together with spectral-line broadening phenomena, that are induced by interactions of many-electron spin systems with photons, phonons, nuclear spins, external electric, magnetic, and electromagnetic fields. Within the framework of a quantum-open-systems (reduced-density-operator) approach, these processes are treated either as coherent interactions or as environmental interactions. The environmental interactions are incorporated by means of the general expressions that are derived for the time-domain and frequency-domain Liouville-space self-energy operators, for which the tetradic-matrix elements are explicitly evaluated in the diagonal-resolvent, lowest-order, and Markov (short-memory time) approximations.