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View SchemaNon-Markovian dynamics in a spin star system: Exact solution and approximation techniques
| Authors | Heinz-Peter Breuer, Daniel Burgarth, Francesco Petruccione |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0401051 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0401051 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevB.70.045323 |
| Journal | Physical Review B 70, 045323 (2004) |
Abstract
The reduced dynamics of a central spin coupled to a bath of N spin-1/2 particles arranged in a spin star configuration is investigated. The exact time evolution of the reduced density operator is derived, and an analytical solution is obtained in the limit of an infinite number of bath spins, where the model shows complete relaxation and partial decoherence. It is demonstrated that the dynamics of the central spin cannot be treated within the Born-Markov approximation. The Nakajima-Zwanzig and the time-convolutionless projection operator technique are applied to the spin star system. The performance of the corresponding perturbation expansions of the non-Markovian equations of motion is examined through a comparison with the exact solution.
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