Survival of classical and quantum particles in the presence of traps

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DOI10.1007/S10955-014-0936-8zbMATH Open1291.82051arXiv1311.6298OpenAlexW1964709969MaRDI QIDQ2249270FDOQ2249270


Authors: P. L. Krapivsky, J. M. Luck, Kirone Mallick Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 10 July 2014

Published in: Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We present a detailed comparison of the motion of a classical and of a quantum particle in the presence of trapping sites, within the framework of continuous-time classical and quantum random walk. The main emphasis is on the qualitative differences in the temporal behavior of the survival probabilities of both kinds of particles. As a general rule, static traps are far less efficient to absorb quantum particles than classical ones. Several lattice geometries are successively considered: an infinite chain with a single trap, a finite ring with a single trap, a finite ring with several traps, and an infinite chain and a higher-dimensional lattice with a random distribution of traps with a given density. For the latter disordered systems, the classical and the quantum survival probabilities obey a stretched exponential asymptotic decay, albeit with different exponents. These results confirm earlier predictions, and the corresponding amplitudes are evaluated. In the one-dimensional geometry of the infinite chain, we obtain a full analytical prediction for the amplitude of the quantum problem, including its dependence on the trap density and strength.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1311.6298




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