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Nonlinear Schrödinger equation and dissipative quantum dynamics in periodic fields
Chu, Shih-I Huang, Youhong Hirschfelder, Joseph O.
Chu, Shih-I
Huang, Youhong
Hirschfelder, Joseph O.
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The nonlinear dynamics of dissipative quantum systems in periodic fields is studied in the framework of a Gisin-like nonlinear Schrödinger equation with deterministic nonunitary quantum friction terms describing the system-bath couplings. The virtue of this nonunitary evolution is that it is compatible with Dirac’s superposition principle and the Hilbert-space structure of quantum kinematics. Floquet theory and the generalized Van Vleck nearly degenerate perturbation method are used to facilitate both analytical and numerical solutions. Closed-form analytic solutions can be obtained in the long-time average approximation or within the rotating-wave approximation. The methods are applied to the study of dissipative quantum dynamics of two-level systems driven by intense periodic fields. It is found that the system asymptotically approaches a limit cycle (whose orientation is subject to the quantum friction constraint), regardless of the strength of the perturbed fields and the nonlinearity constant, indicating quantum suppression of classical chaos. Further, each point of the limit cycle is found to be an attractor and ψ(t) exhibits a fractal-like evolution pattern in the course of time. The structure of the limit cycle depends strongly upon field intensity and frequency as well as the order of nonlinear multiphoton transitions. The power spectrum of the Bloch vector trajectory exhibits a dynamical symmetry inherent in the dissipative system and in the asymptotic limit cycle. A theoretical analysis is presented for the understanding of the origin and the role of the dynamical symmetry.
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This is the published version, also available here: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.40.4171.
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1989-10-15
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American Physical Society
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Chu, Shih-I., Huang, Youhong., Hirschfelder, Joseph O. "Nonlinear Schrödinger equation and dissipative quantum dynamics in periodic fields." Phys. Rev. A 40, 4171 – Published 15 October 1989. http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.40.4171.