Random repeated interaction quantum systems

DOI10.1007/S00220-008-0580-8MaRDI QIDQ1006297zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Laurent Bruneau, A. Joye, M. Merkli

Publication date 20 March 2009

Published in Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0710.5908

zbMATH Keywords

quantized electromagnetic fieldquantum systemsrandom interactionsrandom spin-fermion systemrandom spin-spin systemsecond law of thermodynamics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of functional analysis in statistical physics (46N55) Quantum dynamics and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82C10) Dynamics of disordered systems (random Ising systems, etc.) in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C44)

Abstract: We consider a quantum system S interacting sequentially with independent systems E_m, m=1,2,... Before interacting, each E_m is in a possibly random state, and each interaction is characterized by an interaction time and an interaction operator, both possibly random. We prove that any initial state converges to an asymptotic state almost surely in the ergodic mean, provided the couplings satisfy a mild effectiveness condition. We analyze the macroscopic properties of the asymptotic state and show that it satisfies a second law of thermodynamics. We solve exactly a model in which S and all the E_m are spins: we find the exact asymptotic state, in case the interaction time, the temperature, and the excitation energies of the E_m vary randomly. We analyze a model in which S is a spin and the E_m are thermal fermion baths and obtain the asymptotic state by rigorous perturbation theory, for random interaction times varying slightly around a fixed mean, and for small values of a coupling constant.

Review text

The aim of the paper is to rigorously analyze the asymptotic properties of random repeated interaction of quantum systems. The motivation for this study is a cavity containing the quantized electromagnetic field, with a hitting atom beam which works in such a manner that only a single atom is present in the cavity at any time. One considers a quantum system interacting sequentially with independent systems which themselves are in random state. Loosely speaking, since we are in the framework of quantum mechanics, the state of the quantum system is affected by each interaction (observation) therefore the serial problem. The basic results so stated are related to the ergodic limit of infinite operator products, the second law of thermodynamics, random spin-spin systems, random spin-fermion systems. The main mathematical tool so involved is matrix products.

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