Abstract

A universal scheme is introduced to speed up the dynamics of a driven open quantum system along a prescribed trajectory of interest. This framework generalizes counterdiabatic driving to open quantum processes. Shortcuts to adiabaticity designed in this fashion can be implemented in two alternative physical scenarios: one characterized by the presence of balanced gain and loss, the other involves non-Markovian dynamics with time-dependent Lindblad operators. As an illustration, we engineer superadiabatic cooling, heating, and isothermal strokes for a two-level system, and provide a protocol for the fast thermalization of a quantum oscillator.

Highlights

  • We provide details to establish the equivalence of the different master equations for the fast thermalization of a quantum oscillator

  • The thermal state of a harmonic oscillator is known to be described by a Gaussian density matrix, (x, x, t)= x| (t)|x =Nte−At(x2+x 2)−2Ctxx, (52)

  • The dissipator admits the operator form of the dissipator given in the main text, Eq (41)

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Summary

STA by counterdiabatic driving

N and can be recast as a Liouville-von Neumann equation, ∂t (t) = −i[H1(t), (t)] (with = 1), whenever the dynamics is generated by the Hamiltonian. CD assumes that |nt are the eigenstates of a reference system H0(t) that can be controlled by the auxiliary field H1(t) so that the full dynamics is generated by H0(t) + H1(t). Where Z0(t) = Tr[e−βH0(t)] denotes the partition function, and β is the inverse temperature (assuming kB = 1). With this definition, the spectral decomposition of the reference Hamiltonian reads.

CD driving of open quantum systems
Mixed evolution under balanced gain and loss
Lindblad-like form
Quantum speed limit for STA in open quantum processes
Strokes for a two-level system
STA for equilibration of a thermalizing atom
Fast thermalization of a quantum oscillator
Summary and conclusions
A Lindblad-like master equation
C Thermalization of a quantum oscillator

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