Including temperature in a wavefunction description of the dynamics of the quantum Rabi model

DOI10.1088/1751-8121/AA94A1MaRDI QIDQ4606134zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Michael Werther, Frank Grossmann

Publication date 1 March 2018

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.03460

zbMATH Keywords

temperaturevariational principlequantum Rabi modelDavydov Ansatz

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Model quantum field theories (81T10) Thermal quantum field theory (81T28)

Abstract: We present a wavefunction methodology to account for finite temperature initial conditions in the quantum Rabi model. The approach is based on the Davydov-Ansatz together with a statistical sampling of the canonical harmonic oscillator initial density matrix. Equations of motion are gained from a variational principle and numerical results are compared to those of the thermal Hamiltonian approach. For a system consisting of a single spin and a single oscillator and for moderate coupling strength, we compare our new results with full quantum ones as well as with other Davydov-type results based on alternative sampling/summation strategies. All of these perform better than the ones based on the thermal Hamiltonian approach. The best agreement is shown by a Boltzmann weighting of individual eigenstate propagations. Extending this to a bath of many oscillators will, however, be very demanding numerically. The use of any one of the investigated stochastic sampling approaches will then be favorable.

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