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Second quantization of open quantum systems in Liouville space

Vladislav Sukharnikov* and Stasis Chuchurka

Andrei Benediktovitch

Nina Rohringer†

  • Deutsches Elektronen- Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg 22607, Germany and Department of Physics, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg 22761, Germany

  • Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg 22607, Germany

  • Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg 22607, Germany and Department of Physics, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg 22761, Germany

  • *vladislav.sukharnikov@cfel.de
  • †nina.rohringer@desy.de
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Phys. Rev. A 107, 053707 – Published 11 May, 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.107.053707

Abstract

We present a theoretical framework based on second quantization in Liouville space to treat open quantum systems. We consider an ensemble of identical quantum emitters characterized by a discrete set of quantum states. The second quantization is performed directly at the level of density matrices, thereby significantly reducing the size of the Liouville space. In contrast to conventional Hilbert space techniques, statistically mixed states and dissipation are naturally incorporated. As a particular example of application, we study the effect of incoherent processes and statistical mixing of emitters initial states in the interaction with quantum light. Moreover, we link our framework to a phase-space description of the dynamics, which can overcome the computational limitations of our method with the increasing number of particles.

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Phys. Rev. A 107, 053707– Published 11 May, 2023
  • Received 29 July 2022
  • Revised 21 March 2023
  • Accepted 27 March 2023
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