Physics – Quantum Physics
Scientific paper
2005-02-28
Phys. Rev. E 72, 016117 (2005)
Physics
Quantum Physics
RevTeX, 7 pages, 12 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevE.72.016117
We investigate the decoherence of a spin 1/2 subsystem weakly coupled to an environment of many spins 1/2 with and without mutual coupling. The total system is closed, its state is pure and evolves under Schroedinger dynamics. Nevertheless, the considered spin typically reaches a quasi-stationary equilibrium state. Here we show that this state depends strongly on the coupling to the environment on the one hand and on the coupling within the environmental spins on the other. In particular we focus on spin star and spin ring-star geometries to investigate the effect of intra-environmental coupling on the central spin. By changing the spectrum of the environment its effect as a bath on the central spin is changed also and may even be adjustable to some degree. We find that the relaxation behavior is related to the distribution of the energy eigenstates of the total system. For each of these relaxation modes there is a dual mode for which the resulting subsystem approaches an inverted state occupation probability (negative temperature).
Mahler Guenter
Schmidt Harry
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