Mixing properties of the one-atom maser

DOI10.1007/S10955-014-0982-2MaRDI QIDQ2511533zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Laurent Bruneau

Publication date 6 August 2014

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.6521

zbMATH Keywords

completely positive mapsone-atom maserrepeated interaction systemsthermal relaxation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lasers, masers, optical bistability, nonlinear optics (78A60) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10) Quantum optics (81V80) Interacting particle systems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C22)

Abstract: We study the relaxation properties of the quantized electromagnetic field in a cavity under repeated interactions with single two-level atoms, so-called one-atom maser. We improve the ergodic results obtained in [BP] and prove that, whenever the atoms are initially distributed according to the canonical ensemble at temparature T>0, all the invariant states are mixing. Under some non-resonance condition this invariant state is known to be thermal equilibirum at some renormalized temperature T* and we prove that the mixing is then arbitrarily slow, in other words that there is no lower bound on the relaxation speed.

Review text

We are in the framework of a rigorous development for the quantum statistical mechanics of open systems, and more especially for repeated interaction (RI) systems. In the present paper, the author expands the mathematical analysis of a special class of RI systems which describe the one-atom maser experiment, and which he proposed previously in preceding articles. One studies the thermal relaxation of the system, and the relation of the velocity of the relaxation with the presence of infinitely many meta-stable states.

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