Steady-state relation of a two-level system strongly coupled to a many-body quantum chaotic environment

Abstract

We study the long-time average of the reduced density matrix (RDM) of a two-level system as the central system, which is locally coupled to a many-body quantum chaotic system as the environment, under an overall Schrödinger evolution. A phenomenological relation among elements of the RDM is proposed for a dissipative interaction in the strong coupling regime and is tested numerically with the environment as a defect Ising chain, as well as a mixed-field Ising chain.