Third quantization for bosons: symplectic diagonalization, non-Hermitian Hamiltonian, and symmetries

DOI10.1088/1751-8121/ACF177MaRDI QIDQ6096898zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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Publication date 15 September 2023

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.02367

zbMATH Keywords

Lindblad equationnon-Hermitian Hamiltonianopen bosonic systemsymmetrythird quantization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hamilton's equations (70H05) Nonselfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory including creation and destruction operators (81Q12) Canonical quantization (81S08) Open systems, reduced dynamics, master equations, decoherence (81S22) Bosonic systems in quantum theory (81V73)

Abstract: Open quantum systems that interact with a Markovian environment can be described by a Lindblad master equation. The generator of time-translation is given by a Liouvillian superoperator $mathcalL$ acting on the density matrix of the system. As the Fock space for a single bosonic mode is already infinite-dimensional, the diagonalization of the Liouvillian has to be done on the creation- and annihilation-superoperators, a process called `third quantization'. We propose a method to solve the Liouvillian for quadratic systems using a single symplectic transformation. We show that the non-Hermitian effective Hamiltonian of the system, next to incorporating the dynamics of the system, is a tool to analyze its symmetries. As an example, we use the effective Hamiltonian to formulate a $mathcalPT$-`symmetry' of an open system. We describe how the inclusion of source terms allows to obtain the cumulant generating function for observables such as the photon current.

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