Energy transfer using unitary transformations

DOI10.3390/E15125121MaRDI QIDQ280728zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Winny O'Kelly de Galway, Jan Naudts

Publication date 10 May 2016

Published in Entropy (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.0381

zbMATH Keywords

driven quantum systemquantum heat enginequantum stirringS-matrixthree-level system

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classical and relativistic thermodynamics (80A10) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) (S)-matrix theory, etc. in quantum theory (81U20) Quantum optics (81V80)

Abstract: We study the unitary time evolution of a simple quantum Hamiltonian describing two harmonic oscillators coupled via a three-level system. The latter acts as an engine transferring energy from one oscillator to the other and is driven in a cyclic manner by time-dependent external fields. The S-matrix of the cycle is obtained in analytic form. The total number of quanta contained in the system is a conserved quantity. As a consequence the spectrum of the S-matrix is purely discrete and the evolution of the system is quasi-periodic.

Review text

Summary: We study the unitary time evolution of a simple quantum Hamiltonian describing two harmonic oscillators coupled via a three-level system. The latter acts as an engine transferring energy from one oscillator to the other and is driven in a cyclic manner by time-dependent external fields. The S-matrix (scattering matrix) of the cycle is obtained in analytic form. The total number of quanta contained in the system is a conserved quantity. As a consequence, the spectrum of the S-matrix is purely discrete, and the evolution of the system is quasi-periodic. The explicit knowledge of the S-matrix makes it possible to do accurate numerical evaluations of the time-dependent wave function. They confirm the quasi-periodic behavior. In particular, the energy flows back and forth between the two oscillators in a quasi-periodic manner.

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• METHOD OF ENERGY TRANSFER
• Realism in energy transition processes: an example from Bohmian quantum mechanics

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