Exceptional Points and Exponential Sensitivity for Periodically Driven Lindblad Equations

DOI10.1142/S1230161223500087arXiv2306.12322OpenAlexW4384567646MaRDI QIDQ6136069FDOQ6136069

Jonas Larson, Author name not available (Why is that?)

Publication date: 28 August 2023

Published in: Open Systems & Information Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this contribution to the memorial issue of G"oran Lindblad, we investigate the periodically driven Lindblad equation for a two-level system. We analyze the system using both adiabatic diagonalization and numerical simulations of the time-evolution, as well as Floquet theory. Adiabatic diagonalization reveals the presence of exceptional points in the system, which depend on the system parameters. We show how the presence of these exceptional points affects the system evolution, leading to a rapid dephasing at these points and a staircase-like loss of coherence. This phenomenon can be experimentally observed by measuring, for example, the population inversion. We also observe that the presence of exceptional points seems to be related to which underlying Lie algebra the system supports. In the Floquet analysis, we map the time-dependent Liouvillian to a non-Hermitian Floquet Hamiltonian and analyze its spectrum. For weak decay rates, we find a Wannier-Stark ladder spectrum accompanied by corresponding Stark-localized eigenstates. For larger decay rates, the ladders begin to dissolve, and new, less localized states emerge. Additionally, their eigenvalues are exponentially sensitive to perturbations, similar to the skin effect found in certain non-Hermitian Hamiltonians.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.12322

zbMATH Keywords

open quantum systemsexceptional pointsmaster equationstime-dependent Lindblad equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Estimates of eigenvalues in context of PDEs (35P15) Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70) Identities, free Lie (super)algebras (17B01) Perturbations in context of PDEs (35B20) Coherent states (81R30) Statistical thermodynamics (82B30) Open systems, reduced dynamics, master equations, decoherence (81S22) Canonical and symplectic transformations for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H15) Particle decays (81U90)

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