Open quantum systems with loss and gain

DOI10.1007/S10773-014-2375-3zbMATH Open1329.81249arXiv1409.2670OpenAlexW2023779547MaRDI QIDQ905172FDOQ905172

Authors: H. Eleuch, I. Rotter 

Publication date: 14 January 2016

Published in: International Journal of Theoretical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider different properties of small open quantum systems coupled to an environment and described by a non-Hermitian Hamilton operator. Of special interest is the non-analytical behavior of the eigenvalues in the vicinity of singular points, the so-called exceptional points (EPs), at which the eigenvalues of two states coalesce and the corresponding eigenfunctions are linearly dependent from one another. The phases of the eigenfunctions are not rigid in approaching an EP and providing therewith the possibility to put information from the environment into the system. All characteristic properties of non-Hermitian quantum systems hold true not only for natural open quantum systems that suffer loss due to their embedding into the continuum of scattering wavefunctions. They appear also in systems coupled to different layers some of which provide gain to the system. Thereby gain and loss, respectively, may be fixed inside every layer, i.e. characteristic of it.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.2670

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zbMATH Keywords

open quantum systemsPT symmetryexceptional pointsphase rigidityloss and gain in open quantum systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Open systems, reduced dynamics, master equations, decoherence (81S22)

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