Driven-Dissipative Criticality within the Discrete Truncated Wigner Approximation

authored by
Vijay Pal Singh, Hendrik Weimer
Abstract

We present an approach to the numerical simulation of open quantum many-body systems based on the semiclassical framework of the discrete truncated Wigner approximation. We establish a quantum jump formalism to integrate the quantum master equation describing the dynamics of the system, which we find to be exact in both the noninteracting limit and the limit where the system is described by classical rate equations. We apply our method to simulation of the paradigmatic dissipative Ising model, where we are able to capture the critical fluctuations of the system beyond the level of mean-field theory.

Organisation(s)
QuantumFrontiers
Institute of Theoretical Physics
CRC 1227 Designed Quantum States of Matter (DQ-mat)
External Organisation(s)
Universität Hamburg
Type
Article
Journal
Physical Review Letters
Volume
128
ISSN
0031-9007
Publication date
17.05.2022
Publication status
Published
Peer reviewed
Yes
ASJC Scopus subject areas
General Physics and Astronomy
Electronic version(s)
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2108.07273 (Access: Open)
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.200602 (Access: Closed)