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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 127, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.060401
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- Wissenschaftler-Ruckkehrprogramm GSO/CZS of the Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung
- German Scholars Organization e.V.
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinsschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) [435696605]
- Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovacion y Universidades
- Agencia Estatal de Investigacion [MTM2017-84446-C2-2-R, PID2020-116567GB-C22]
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Research shows that the relaxation dynamics of Markovian open quantum systems can be exponentially accelerated by designing an optimal unitary transformation. This initial rotation is engineered in such a way that the state of the quantum system no longer excites the slowest decaying dynamical mode, thus achieving a fast convergence to stationarity.
Ergodicity breaking and slow relaxation are intriguing aspects of nonequilibrium dynamics both in classical and quantum settings. These phenomena are typically associated with phase transitions, e.g., the emergence of metastable regimes near a first-order transition or scaling dynamics in the vicinity of critical points. Despite being of fundamental interest the associated divergent timescales are a hindrance when trying to explore steady-state properties. Here we show that the relaxation dynamics of Markovian open quantum systems can be accelerated exponentially by devising an optimal unitary transformation that is applied to the quantum system immediately before the actual dynamics. This initial rotation is engineered in such a way that the state of the quantum system no longer excites the slowest decaying dynamical mode. We illustrate our idea-which is inspired by the so-called Mpemba effect, i.e., water freezing faster when initially heated up-by showing how to achieve an exponential speeding-up in the convergence to stationarity in Dicke models, and how to avoid metastable regimes in an all-to-all interacting spin system.
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