Lindblad dynamics of a quantum spherical spin

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/49/12/125001zbMATH Open1343.81153arXiv1511.03347OpenAlexW2271357616WikidataQ58203218 ScholiaQ58203218MaRDI QIDQ2994747FDOQ2994747

Authors: Sascha Wald, Malte Henkel 

Publication date: 3 August 2016

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The coherent quantum dynamics of a single bosonic spin variable, subject to a constraint derived from the quantum spherical model of a ferromagnet, and coupled to an external heat bath, is studied through the Lindblad equation for the reduced density matrix. Closed systems of equations of motion for several quantum observables are derived and solved exactly. The relationship to the single-mode Dicke model from quantum optics is discussed. The analysis of the interplay of the quantum fluctuation and the dissipation and their influence on the relaxation of the time-dependent magnetisation leads to the distinction of qualitatively different regimes of weak and strong quantum couplings. Considering the model's behaviour in an external field as a simple mean-field approximation of the dynamics of a quantum spherical ferromagnet, the magnetic phase diagramme appears to be re-entrant and presents a quantum analogue of well-established classical examples of fluctuation-induced order.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.03347

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zbMATH Keywords

phase transitionspherical modelquantum dynamicsmean-field theoryLindblad equationre-entrant transition

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum optics (81V80) Dynamic and nonequilibrium phase transitions (general) in statistical mechanics (82C26) Stochastic methods (Fokker-Planck, Langevin, etc.) applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C31) Statistical mechanics of magnetic materials (82D40) Open systems, reduced dynamics, master equations, decoherence (81S22)

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