Decoherence and the ultraviolet cutoff: non-Markovian dissipative dynamics of a charged particle in a magnetic field

DOI10.1088/1751-8121/ACD231zbMATH Open1516.81135arXiv2301.06365OpenAlexW4367836201MaRDI QIDQ6159068FDOQ6159068

Authors: Suraka Bhattacharjee, Supurna Sinha 

Publication date: 1 June 2023

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

Abstract: We derive a non-Markovian master equation for a charged particle in a magnetic field coupled to a bath and study decoherence by analysing the temporal decay of the off-diagonal elements of the reduced density matrix in the position basis. The coherent oscillations characterised by the cyclotron frequency get suppressed as a result of decoherence due to coupling with the environment. We consider an Ohmic bath with three distinct models for the high-frequency cutoff for the spectral density of the bath and compare the three cases. As expected, the three cutoff models converge in the limit of the uppermost frequency of the bath tending to infinity. We notice a dramatic slowing down of loss of coherence in the low-temperature limit dominated by zero point quantum fluctuations compared to the high-temperature classical limit dominated by thermal fluctuations. We also go beyond the Ohmic model and study super-Ohmic and sub-Ohmic baths with the spectral densities deviating from a linear dependence on the frequency. Our results are testable in a state of the art cold atom laboratory.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.06365

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zbMATH Keywords

dissipative dynamicsquantum decoherencereduced density matrixnon-Markovian master equationcharged Brownian particlesub-ohmic spectral densitysuper-Ohmic spectral density

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Electro- and magnetostatics (78A30) Spectrum, resolvent (47A10) Motion of charged particles (78A35) Classical and relativistic thermodynamics (80A10) Quantum state spaces, operational and probabilistic concepts (81P16) Open systems, reduced dynamics, master equations, decoherence (81S22)

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