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Decoherence and relaxation of topological states in extended quantum Ising models
by Hannes Weisbrich, Wolfgang Belzig, Gianluca Rastelli
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Submission summary
| Submission information |
| Preprint Link: |
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.06899v2
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| Date accepted: |
2019-03-20 |
| Date submitted: |
2019-03-13 01:00 |
| Submitted by: |
Weisbrich, Hannes |
| Submitted to: |
SciPost Physics |
| Ontological classification |
| Academic field: |
Physics |
| Specialties: |
- Condensed Matter Physics - Theory
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| Approach: |
Theoretical |
Abstract
We study the decoherence and the relaxation dynamics of topological states in an extended class of quantum Ising chains which can present a manyfold ground state subspace. The leading interaction of the spins with the environment is assumed to be the local fluctuations of the transverse magnetic field. By deriving the Lindblad equation using the many-body states, we investigate the relation between decoherence, energy relaxation and topology. In particular, in the topological phase and at low temperature, we analyze the dephasing rates between the different degenerate ground states.
