Prethermalization in an open quantum system coupled to a spatially correlated Bosonic bath

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Main Authors: Saha, Saptarshi, Bhattacharyya, Rangeet
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author Saha, Saptarshi
Bhattacharyya, Rangeet
author_facet Saha, Saptarshi
Bhattacharyya, Rangeet
contents A nearly-integrable isolated quantum many-body system reaches a quasi-stationary prethermal state before a late thermalization. Here, we revisit a particular example in the settings of an open quantum system. We consider a collection of non-interacting atoms coupled to a spatially correlated bosonic bath characterized by a bath correlation length. Our result implies that the integrability of the system depends on such a correlation length. If this length is much larger than the distance between the atoms, such a system behaves as a nearly integrable open quantum system. We study the properties of the emerging prethermal state for this case, i.e., the state's lifetime, the extensive numbers of existing quasi-conserved quantities, the emergence of the generalized Gibbs state, and the scaling of von Neumann entropy, etc. We find that for the prethermal state, the maximum growth of entropy is logarithmic with the number of atoms, whereas such growth is linear for the final steady state, which is the Gibbs state in this case. Finally, we discuss how such prethermal states can have significant applications in quantum entanglement storage devices.
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spellingShingle Prethermalization in an open quantum system coupled to a spatially correlated Bosonic bath
Saha, Saptarshi
Bhattacharyya, Rangeet
Quantum Physics
Statistical Mechanics
A nearly-integrable isolated quantum many-body system reaches a quasi-stationary prethermal state before a late thermalization. Here, we revisit a particular example in the settings of an open quantum system. We consider a collection of non-interacting atoms coupled to a spatially correlated bosonic bath characterized by a bath correlation length. Our result implies that the integrability of the system depends on such a correlation length. If this length is much larger than the distance between the atoms, such a system behaves as a nearly integrable open quantum system. We study the properties of the emerging prethermal state for this case, i.e., the state's lifetime, the extensive numbers of existing quasi-conserved quantities, the emergence of the generalized Gibbs state, and the scaling of von Neumann entropy, etc. We find that for the prethermal state, the maximum growth of entropy is logarithmic with the number of atoms, whereas such growth is linear for the final steady state, which is the Gibbs state in this case. Finally, we discuss how such prethermal states can have significant applications in quantum entanglement storage devices.
title Prethermalization in an open quantum system coupled to a spatially correlated Bosonic bath
topic Quantum Physics
Statistical Mechanics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.03269