Physics – Condensed Matter – Strongly Correlated Electrons
Scientific paper
2011-10-24
Physics
Condensed Matter
Strongly Correlated Electrons
22 pages, 16 figures
Scientific paper
We investigate a model system for the injection of fermionic particles from filled source sites into an empty chain. We study the ensuing dynamics for Hermitian as well as for non-Hermitian time evolution where the particles cannot return to the bath sites (quantum ratchet). A non-homogeneous hybridization between bath and chain sites permits transient currents in the chain. Non-interacting particles show decoherence in the thermodynamic limit: the average particle number and the average current density in the chain become stationary for long times, whereas the single-particle density matrix displays large fluctuations around its mean value. Using the numerical time-dependent density-matrix renormalization group ($t$-DMRG) method we demonstrate, on the other hand, that sizable density-density interactions between the particles introduce relaxation which is by orders of magnitudes faster than the decoherence processes.
Gebhard Florian
Muenster Kevin zu
Ren Jie
Sedlmayr Nicholas
Sirker Jesko
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