The arrow of time in open quantum systems and dynamical breaking of the resonance-anti-resonance symmetry

DOI10.1088/1751-8121/AA85AEMaRDI QIDQ4589380zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Naomichi Hatano, Gonzalo E. Ordóñez

Publication date 10 November 2017

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.01548

zbMATH Keywords

arrow of timeopen quantum systemtime-reversal symmetryresonant statequantum Zeno time

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Resonance in context of PDEs (35B34) Nonselfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory including creation and destruction operators (81Q12) Open systems, reduced dynamics, master equations, decoherence (81S22)

Abstract: Open quantum systems are often represented by non-Hermitian effective Hamiltonians that have complex eigenvalues associated with resonances. In previous work we showed that the evolution of tight-binding open systems can be represented by an explicitly time-reversal symmetric expansion involving all the discrete eigenstates of the effective Hamiltonian. These eigenstates include complex-conjugate pairs of resonant and anti-resonant states. An initially time-reversal-symmetric state contains equal contributions from the resonant and anti-resonant states. Here we show that as the state evolves in time, the symmetry between the resonant and anti-resonant states is automatically broken, with resonant states becoming dominant for $t>0$ and anti-resonant states becoming dominant for $t<0$. Further, we show that there is a time-scale for this symmetry-breaking, which we associate with the "Zeno time." We also compare the time-reversal symmetric expansion with an asymmetric expansion used previously by several researchers. We show how the present time-reversal symmetric expansion bypasses the non-Hilbert nature of the resonant and anti-resonant states, which previously introduced exponential divergences into the asymmetric expansion.

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