Spontaneous symmetry breaking in thermalization and anti-thermalization

Details Spontaneous symmetry breaking in thermalization and anti-thermalization Spontaneous symmetry breaking in thermalization and anti-thermalization

2009-09-07

arxiv.org/abs/0909.1230v1

Physics

Quantum Physics

4 pages, 3 figures

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The phenomenon of spontaneous symmetry breaking is investigated in the dynamic thermalization of a degenerate quantum system. A three-level system interacting with a heat bath is carefully studied to this end. It is shown that the three-level system with degenerate ground states might have different behaviors depending on the details of the interaction with the heat bath when the temperature approaches zero. If we introduce an external field to break the degeneracy of the ground states and let it approach zero after letting the temperature approach zero, then two possibilities will arise: the steady state is a definite one of the degenerate states independent of the initial state, or the steady state is dependent on the initial state in a complicated way. The first possibility corresponds to a spontaneous symmetry breaking of the system and the second one implies that the heat bath could not totally erase the initial information in certain cases.

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