2011
DOI: 10.1103/physreve.84.031118
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Quantum Smoluchowski equation for a spin bath

Abstract: We derive the quantum mechanical description of overdamped Brownian motion of a particle in a spin bath of two-level atoms. The resulting Smoluchowski equation is used to calculate the rate of escape of the particle from a metastable state. At 0 K the decay rate is finite. We show that while quantization enhances the decay rate, higher temperatures induce thermal saturation, resulting in effective a reduction of the system-bath coupling. The role of coherence is examined.

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“…Although the method has been applied to a liquid crystalline system in the present work, the method can, in general, be applied to any lattice spin model with continuous energy spectrum. This method has resulted in efficient simulation of continuous models with XY symmetry [43,44]. Finally, we stress that the focus in this paper is to test the performance of the WL algorithm in continuous lattice spin models with the proposed spin update scheme.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Although the method has been applied to a liquid crystalline system in the present work, the method can, in general, be applied to any lattice spin model with continuous energy spectrum. This method has resulted in efficient simulation of continuous models with XY symmetry [43,44]. Finally, we stress that the focus in this paper is to test the performance of the WL algorithm in continuous lattice spin models with the proposed spin update scheme.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Moreover, defining a spin update in that way, the algorithm becomes free from tuning any adjustable parameter even while simulating a lattice spin model with continuous energy spectrum. This spin update method has resulted in efficient simulation of continuous lattice spin models with XY symmetry [43,44]. The energy of the 1d LL model is a continuous variable and it can have any value between −L to L/2 where L is the system size.…”
Section: Computational Techniquesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Metastability in open quantum systems and relaxation processes from metastable states are a fundamental issue in many branches of physics and chemistry, and recently have been subject of increasing interest [23,79,80,81,82,83,84,85,86,87]. In this section, in order to analyze the evolution of a quantum particle, interacting with a thermal bath, initially placed in a metastable state we consider a time-independent asymmetric bistable potential.…”
Section: Quantum Metastable Systemmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Thus, in analogy to coherent state |α [77][78][79][80] for bosonic field which is a displaced state |α = D(α)|0 produced by the action of the displacement operatorD(α) = exp ∑ i (α iâ † i − α * iâ i ) on the vacuum |0 , where {α i } being a set of complex numbers [77][78][79][80][81][82][83][84], it is possible to construct the normalized coherent state for fermions [39].…”
Section: Coherent States For Fermionsmentioning
confidence: 99%