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Free bosons with a localized source
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Abstract
We analyze the time evolution of an open quantum system driven by a localized source of bosons. We consider non-interacting identical bosons that are injected into a single lattice site and perform a continuous time quantum walks on a lattice. We show that the average number of bosons grows exponentially with time when the input rate exceeds a certain lattice-dependent critical value. Below the threshold, the growth is quadratic in time, which is still much faster than the naive linear in time growth. We compute the critical input rate for hyper-cubic lattices and find that it is positive in all dimensionsdexcept ford= 2 where the critical input rate vanishes-the growth is always exponential in two dimensions. To understand the exponential growth, we construct an explicit microscopic Hamiltonian model which gives rise to the open system dynamics once the bath is traced out. Exponential growth is identified with a region of dynamic instability of the Hamiltonian system.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Journal of statistical mechanics : theory and experiment. - Bristol, 2004, currens
Publication
Bristol : Institute of Physics , 2020
ISSN
1742-5468
DOI
10.1088/1742-5468/AB8118
Volume/pages
2020 :6 (2020) , p. 1-27
Article Reference
063101
ISI
000541522800001
Medium
E-only publicatie
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