Thursday, January 24, 2013

1301.5624 (Nicholas Chancellor et al.)

Non-Markovian Equilibration Controlled by Symmetry Breaking    [PDF]

Nicholas Chancellor, Christoph Petri, Stephan Haas
We study the effects of symmetry breaking on non-Markovian dynamics in various system-bath arrangements. It is shown that by breaking certain symmetries features signaling non-Markovian time evolution disappear within a finite time t_{g}. We demonstrate numerically that the scaling of t_{g} with the symmetry breaking strength is different for various types of symmetry. We provide a mathematical explanation for these differences related to the spectrum of the total system-bath Hamiltonian and provide arguments that the scaling properties of t_{g} should be universal.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.5624

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