Thermodynamics of quantum jump trajectories in systems driven by classical fluctuations

Details Thermodynamics of quantum jump trajectories in systems driven by classical fluctuations Thermodynamics of quantum jump trajectories in systems driven by classical fluctuations

2010-12-03

arxiv.org/abs/1012.0776v1

Phys. Rev. E 82, 061106 (2010)

Physics

Quantum Physics

12 pages, 3 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.82.061106

The large-deviation method can be used to study the measurement trajectories of open quantum systems. For optical arrangements this formalism allows to describe the long time properties of the (non-equilibrium) photon counting statistics in the context of a (equilibrium) thermodynamic approach defined in terms of dynamical phases and transitions between them in the trajectory space [J.P. Garrahan and I. Lesanovsky, Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 160601 (2010)]. In this paper, we study the thermodynamic approach for fluorescent systems coupled to complex reservoirs that induce stochastic fluctuations in their dynamical parameters. In a fast modulation limit the thermodynamics corresponds to that of a Markovian two-level system. In a slow modulation limit, the thermodynamic properties are equivalent to those of a finite system that in an infinite-size limit is characterized by a first-order transition. The dynamical phases correspond to different intensity regimes, while the size of the system is measured by the transition rate of the bath fluctuations. As a function of a dimensionless intensive variable, the first and second derivative of the thermodynamic potential develop an abrupt change and a narrow peak respectively. Their scaling properties are consistent with a double-Gaussian probability distribution of the associated extensive variable.

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