Decoherence of an impurity in a one-dimensional fermionic bath with mass imbalance
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Physical Review A, Volume 94, issue 1, pp. 1-11
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We study the transport, decoherence, and the dissipation of the kinetic energy of a mobile impurity interacting with a bath of free fermions in a one-dimensional lattice. Numerical simulations are made with the time-evolving block decimation method, starting from a state where the impurity and bath are decoupled. We introduce a mass imbalance between the impurity and bath particles and find that the fastest decoherence occurs for a light impurity in a bath of heavy particles. By contrast, the fastest dissipation of energy occurs when the masses are equal. We present a simple model for decoherence in the heavy bath limit, and a linear density response description of the interaction which predicts maximum dissipation for equal masses.Description
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Visuri, A M, Kinnunen, J J, Baarsma, J E & Törmä, P 2016, 'Decoherence of an impurity in a one-dimensional fermionic bath with mass imbalance', Physical Review A, vol. 94, no. 1, 013619, pp. 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.94.013619