Real time imaging of quantum and thermal fluctuations: the case of a two-level system

DOI10.1007/S11005-014-0688-ZzbMATH Open1291.81200arXiv1308.0793OpenAlexW1974272742MaRDI QIDQ2014736FDOQ2014736

Authors: Denis Bernard, Michel Bauer 

Publication date: 16 June 2014

Published in: Letters in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A quantum system in contact with a heat bath undergoes quantum transitions between energy levels upon absorption or emission of energy quanta by the bath. These transitions remain virtual unless the energy of the system is measured repeatedly, even continuously in time. Isolating the two indispensable mechanisms in competition, we describe in a synthetic way the main physical features of thermally activated quantum jumps. Using classical tools of stochastic analysis, we compute in the case of a two-level system the complete statistics of jumps and transition times in the limit when the typical measurement time is small compared to the thermal relaxation time. The emerging picture is that quantum trajectories are similar to those of a classical particle in a noisy environment, subject to transitions a la Kramer in a multi-well landscape, but with a large multiplicative noise.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1308.0793

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zbMATH Keywords

quantum trajectoriesthermal fluctuationsquantum jumpsstochastics processes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sample path properties (60G17) Stochastic methods (Fokker-Planck, Langevin, etc.) applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C31) Open systems, reduced dynamics, master equations, decoherence (81S22)

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