Exact Solutions of Interacting Dissipative Systems via Weak Symmetries

We demonstrate how the presence of continuous weak symmetry can be used to analytically diagonalize the Liouvillian of a class of Markovian dissipative systems with strong interactions or nonlinearity. This enables an exact description of the full dynamics and dissipative spectrum. Our method can be...

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Published inPhysical review letters Vol. 128; no. 3; p. 033602
Main Authors McDonald, A, Clerk, A A
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States 21.01.2022
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Summary:We demonstrate how the presence of continuous weak symmetry can be used to analytically diagonalize the Liouvillian of a class of Markovian dissipative systems with strong interactions or nonlinearity. This enables an exact description of the full dynamics and dissipative spectrum. Our method can be viewed as implementing an exact, sector-dependent mean-field decoupling, or alternatively, as a kind of quantum-to-classical mapping. We focus on two canonical examples: a nonlinear bosonic mode subject to incoherent loss and pumping, and an inhomogeneous quantum Ising model with arbitrary connectivity and local dissipation. In both cases, we calculate and analyze the full dissipation spectrum. Our method is applicable to a variety of other systems, and could provide a powerful new tool for the study of complex driven-dissipative quantum systems.
ISSN:1079-7114
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.033602