Hilbert space partitioning for non-Hermitian Hamiltonians: from off-resonance to Zeno subspaces

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETA.2020.126355MaRDI QIDQ2212949zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors B. Militello, A. Napoli

Publication date 27 November 2020

Published in Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.01969

zbMATH Keywords

dissipationnon-Hermitian HamiltonianZeno dynamics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Open systems, reduced dynamics, master equations, decoherence (81S22)

Abstract: Effective non-Hermitian Hamiltonians describing decaying systems are derived and analyzed in connection with the occurrence of possible Hilbert space partitioning, resulting in a confinement of the dynamics. In some cases, this fact can be interpreted properly as Zeno effect or Zeno dynamics, according to the dimension of the subspace one focuses on; in some other cases, the interpretation is more complicated and traceable back to a mix of Zeno phenomena and lack of resonance. Depending on the complex phases of the diagonal terms of the Hamiltonian, the system reacts in different ways, requiring larger moduli for the dynamical confinement to occur when the complex phase is close to $pi/2$.

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