Nature Communications (Apr 2019)

Non-stationary coherent quantum many-body dynamics through dissipation

  • Berislav Buča,
  • Joseph Tindall,
  • Dieter Jaksch

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09757-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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Typically, a quantum system that dissipates into the environment relaxes to a stationary state. Here the authors identify conditions under which dissipation prevents quantum many-body systems from reaching a steady state and they instead exhibit coherent oscillations.