2017/09/30 by Yining You, Yi-Ning You, Sheng-Wen Li
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics #Dephasing #Entropy (arrow of time) #Master equation #Physics #Quantum #Quantum Information and Cryptography #Quantum mechanics #Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies #Statistical physics #Thermal #Thermal fluctuations #Thermodynamics #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physreva.97.012114
published as Phys. Rev. A 97, 012114 (2018) · 9.3 pages, 2 figures
arxiv created 2018/01/02 · openalex publication_date 2018/01/16 · arxiv updated 2018/01/19 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We study the entropy dynamics of a dephasing model, where a two-level system (TLS) is coupled with a squeezed thermal bath via a nondemolition interaction. This model is exactly solvable, and the time-dependent states of both the TLS and its bath can be obtained exactly. Based on these states, we calculate the entropy dynamics of both the TLS and the bath, and find that the dephasing rate of the system relies on the squeezing phase of the bath. In the zero-temperature and high-temperature limits, both the system and bath entropy increase monotonically in the coarse-grained time scale. Moreover, we find that the dephasing rate of the system relies on the squeezing phase of the bath, and this phase dependence cannot be precisely derived from the Born-Markovian approximation which is widely adopted in open quantum systems.