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arXiv:quant-ph/0103129 · Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics

Entropy production and wave packet dynamics in the Fock space of closed chaotic many-body systems

V. V. Flambaum, Felix M. Izrailev

Published Aug 29, 2001• 59 citations
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Abstract

Highly excited many-particle states in quantum systems such as nuclei, atoms, quantum dots, spin systems, quantum computers, etc., can be considered as "chaotic" superpositions of mean-field basis states (Slater determinants, products of spin or qubit states). This is due to a very high level density of many-body states that are easily mixed by a residual interaction between particles (quasiparticles). For such systems, we have derived simple analytical expressions for the time dependence of the energy width of wave packets, as well as for the entropy, number of principal basis components, and inverse participation ratio, and tested them in numerical experiments. It is shown that the energy width Delta(t) increases linearly and very quickly saturates. The entropy of a system increases quadratically, S(t) approximately t(2), at small times, and afterward can grow linearly, S(t) approximately t, before saturation. Correspondingly, the number of principal components determined by the entropy N(pc) approximately exp[S(t)] or by the inverse participation ratio increases exponentially fast before saturation. These results are explained in terms of a cascade model which describes the flow of excitation in the Fock space of basis components. Finally, the striking phenomenon of damped oscillations in the Fock space at the transition to equilibrium is discussed.

DOI
10.1103/physreve.64.036220

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Highly excited many-particle states in quantum systems (nuclei, atoms, quantum dots, spin systems, quantum computers) can be ‘chaotic’ superpositions of mean-field basis states (Slater determinants, products of spin or qubit states). This is a result of the very high energy level density of many-body states which can be easily mixed by a residual interaction between particles. We consider the time dynamics of wave functions and increase of entropy in such chaotic systems. As an example, we present the time evolution in a closed quantum computer. A time scale for the entropy S ( t ) increase is t c ~&tgr; 0 /( n log 2 n ), where &tgr; 0 is the qubit ‘lifetime’, n is the number of qubits, S (0) = 0 and S ( t c )=1. At t _ t c the entropy is small: S ~ nt 2 J 2 log 2 (1/ t 2 J 2 ), where J is the inter-qubit interaction strength. At t > t c the number of ‘wrong’ states increases exponentially as 2 S ( t ) . Therefore, t c may be interpreted as a maximal time for operation of a quantum computer. At t >> t c the system entropy approaches that for chaotic eigenstates.
We demonstrate analytically and numerically that in isolated quantum systems of many interacting particles, the number of many-body states participating in the evolution after a quench increases exponentially in time, provided the eigenstates are delocalized in the energy shell. The rate of the exponential growth is defined by the width Γ of the local density of states and is associated with the Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy for systems with a well-defined classical limit. In a finite system, the exponential growth eventually saturates due to the finite volume of the energy shell. We estimate the timescale for the saturation and show that it is much larger than ℏ/Γ. Numerical data obtained for a two-body random interaction model of bosons and for a dynamical model of interacting spin-1/2 particles show excellent agreement with the analytical predictions.
We demonstrate analytically and numerically that in isolated quantum systems of many interacting particles, the number of states participating in the evolution after a quench increases exponentially in time, provided the eigenstates are delocalized in the energy shell. The rate of the exponential growth is defined by the width Γ\GammaΓ of the local density of states (LDOS) and is associated with the Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy for systems with a well defined classical limit. In a finite system, the exponential growth eventually saturates due to the finite volume of the energy shell. We estimate the time scale for the saturation and show that it is much larger than 1/Γ1/\Gamma1/Γ. Numerical data obtained for a two-body random interaction model of bosons and for a dynamical model of interacting spin-1/2 particles show excellent agreement with the analytical predictions.
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