Threshold for Non-Thermal Stabilization of Open Quantum Systems
arXiv:1310.5832 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.89.012128
Abstract
We generally study whether or not the information of an open quantum system could be totally erased by its surrounding environment in the long time. For a harmonic oscillator coupled to a bath of a spectral density with zero-value regions, we quantitatively present a threshold of system-bath coupling η_{c}, above which the initial information of the system can remains partially as its long time stablization deviates from the usual thermalization. This non-thermal stabilization happens as a non-Markovian effect.
3 pages, 3 figures