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Suraka Bhattacharjee

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arXiv2026

Decoherence of a quantum magneto-oscillator: Effect of field-bath interaction

We investigate the quantum dissipative dynamics of a charged magneto-oscillator(CMO) coupled to a heat bath of harmonic oscillators in the presence of an additional field-bath interaction. The problem is formulated within the framework of the generalized quantum Langevin equation, where the external confining potential modifies the random force correlations and the memory kernel of the environment, and the effective spring constant. Using the corresponding non-Markovian master equation, we examine the influence of the field-bath coupling on the temporal decay of the reduced density matrix of the system. We show that the additional interaction leads to an enhancement of the decoherence rate by altering the dissipative response of the bath. Thus our results shed light on the role of field-bath coupling in the quantum to classical transition of a CMO. The resulting fluctuation-dissipation relation is analyzed, and the position autocorrelation, position-velocity correlation and velocity autocorrelation are obtained explicitly. The dependence of these experimentally accessible quantities on the field-bath coupling parameter is discussed. We outline an experimental proposal for testing our theoretical predictions. The study sheds light on reservoir engineering which is central to quantum technologies.

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arXiv2025

Decoherence of a dissipative Brownian charged magneto-anharmonic oscillator: an information theoretic approach

We study the decoherence of an anisotropic anharmonic oscillator in a magnetic field, coupled to a bath of harmonic oscillators at high and low temperatures. We solve the anharmonic oscillator problem using perturbative techniques and derive the non-Markovian master equation in the weak coupling limit. The anharmonicity parameter {\alpha} enhances decoherence due to the deconfining effect of anharmonicity. The oscillatory nature of the time evolution of heating function indicates information backflow. The von-Neumann entropy is also calculated for the system, which increases with {\alpha}, consistent with the deconfining effect noted in the decoherence analysis. We have also proposed a cold ion experimental set up for testing our theoretical predictions. The study is of relevance to the domain of quantum technology where decoherence significantly affects the performance of a quantum computer.

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arXiv2024

Decoherence of a charged Brownian particle in a magnetic field : an analysis of the roles of coupling via position and momentum variables

The study of decoherence plays a key role in our understanding of the transition from the quantum to the classical world. Typically, one considers a system coupled to an external bath which forms a model for an open quantum system. While most of the studies pertain to a position coupling between the system and the environment, some involve a momentum coupling, giving rise to an anomalous diffusive model. Here we have gone beyond existing studies and analysed the quantum Langevin dynamics of a harmonically oscillating charged Brownian particle in the presence of a magnetic field and coupled to an Ohmic heat bath via both position and momentum couplings. The presence of both position and momentum couplings leads to a stronger interaction with the environment, resulting in a faster loss of coherence compared to a situation where only position coupling is present. The rate of decoherence can be tuned by controlling the relative strengths of the position and momentum coupling parameters. In addition, the magnetic field results in the slowing down of the loss of information from the system, irrespective of the nature of coupling between the system and the bath. Our results can be experimentally verified by designing a suitable ion trap setup.

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arXiv2023

Quantum Langevin dynamics and the long-time behaviour of two charged coupled oscillators in a common heat bath

In this paper, the moderately long-time behaviours of the correlation functions for two charged coupled harmonic oscillators connected to a common heat bath are analyzed in the presence of a magnetic field via the Quantum Langevin dynamics. Interestingly it is seen that at long times the correlation functions at $T \rightarrow 0$ exhibit a power law decay with the coefficients of the power laws being completely different for the two masses, affecting the overall dynamics of the coupled system. The effect of the bath-induced force on mass m1 mediated by the interaction of m2 with the common heat bath is studied and the results are highlighted in the presence of an external magnetic field. It is shown that the effect of cyclotron frequency increases the correlation functions at an instant of time, lowering the rate of temporal decay of the correlation functions. The results in the absence of a magnetic field are also presented, which are extremely important for investigating the movements of the atoms in protein molecules at low temperatures.

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arXiv2023

Decoherence and the ultraviolet cutoff: non-Markovian dynamics of a charged particle in a magnetic field

We derive a non-Markovian master equation for a charged particle in a magnetic field coupled to a bath and study decoherence by analysing the temporal decay of the off-diagonal elements of the reduced density matrix in the position basis. The coherent oscillations characterised by the cyclotron frequency get suppressed as a result of decoherence due to coupling with the environment. We consider an Ohmic bath with three distinct models for the high-frequency cutoff for the spectral density of the bath and compare the three cases. As expected, the three cutoff models converge in the limit of the uppermost frequency of the bath tending to infinity. We notice a dramatic slowing down of loss of coherence in the low-temperature limit dominated by zero point quantum fluctuations compared to the high-temperature classical limit dominated by thermal fluctuations. We also go beyond the Ohmic model and study super-Ohmic and sub-Ohmic baths with the spectral densities deviating from a linear dependence on the frequency. Our results are testable in a state of the art cold atom laboratory.

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arXiv2022

Quantum Langevin Equation of a spin in a magnetic field : an analysis

We derive a quantum Langevin equation for a quantum spin in the presence of a magnetic field and study its dynamics in the Markovian limit using the Ohmic bath model. We extend our analysis to the Drude bath with a finite memory. We study the time evolution of the expectation values of the magnetic moments. The spin auto-correlation functions exhibit a damped oscillatory behaviour with the randomization time being determined by the damping rate and also the memory time for the Drude bath model. We also analyse the spin response function of the system for the Ohmic bath model. Our results are consistent with findings in cold atom experiments. In addition we make predictions which can be tested in future ultra cold atom experiments.

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arXiv2022

Quantum Brownian Motion of a charged oscillator in a magnetic field coupled to a heat bath through momentum variables

We study the Quantum Brownian motion of a charged particle moving in a harmonic potential in the presence of an uniform external magnetic field and linearly coupled to an Ohmic bath through momentum variables. We analyse the growth of the mean square displacement of the particle in the classical high temperature domain and in the quantum low temperature domain dominated by zero point fluctuations. We also analyse the Position Response Function and the long time tails of various correlation functions. We notice some distinctive features, different from the usual case of a charged quantum Brownian particle in a magnetic field and linearly coupled to an Ohmic bath via position variables.

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arXiv2022

Long Time Tails in Quantum Brownian Motion of a charged particle in a magnetic field

We analyse the long time tails of a charged quantum Brownian particle in a harmonic potential in the presence of a magnetic field using the Quantum Langevin Equation as a starting point. We analyse the long time tails in the position autocorrelation function, position-velocity correlation function and velocity autocorrelation function. We study these correlations for a Brownian particle coupled to the Ohmic and Drude baths, via position coordinate coupling. At finite temperatures we notice a crossover from a power-law to an exponentially decaying behaviour around the thermal time scale \frac{\hbar}{K_B T} . We analyse how the appearance of the cyclotron frequency in our study of a charged quantum Brownian particle affects the behaviour of the long time tails and contrast it with the case of a neutral quantum Brownian particle.

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arXiv2021

Quantum Langevin dynamics of a charged particle in a magnetic field : Response function, position-velocity and velocity autocorrelation functions

We use the Quantum Langevin equation as a starting point to study the response function, the position-velocity correlation function and the velocity autocorrelation function of a charged Quantum Brownian particle in the presence of a magnetic field and linearly coupled to a heat bath via position coordinate. We study two bath models -- the Ohmic bath model and the Drude bath model -- and make a detailed comparison in various time-temperature regimes. For both bath models there is a competition between the cyclotron frequency and the viscous damping rate giving rise to a transition from an oscillatory to a monotonic behaviour as the damping rate is increased. In the zero point fluctuation dominated low temperature regime, non-trivial noise correlations lead to some interesting features in this transition. We study the role of the memory time scale which comes into play in the Drude model and study the effect of this additional time scale. We discuss the experimental implications of our analysis in the context of experiments in cold ions.

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arXiv2020

Study of effective coupling between charge degrees of freedom in low dimensional hole-doped quantum antiferromagnets

Expressions for generalized charge stiffness constant at zero temperature are derived corresponding to low dimensional hole doped quantum antiferromagnets, describable by the t-J-like models, with a view to understanding fermionic pairing possibilities and charge couplings in the itinerant antiferromagnetic systems. A detailed comparison between spin and charge correlations and couplings are presented in both strong and weak coupling limits. The result highlights that the charge and spin couplings show very similar behaviour in the over-doped region in both the dimensions, whereas they show a completely different trend in the lower doping regimes. A qualitative equivalence of generalized charge stiffness constant with the effective Drude weight and Coulomb interaction is established based on the comparison with other theoretical and experimental results. The fall in charge stiffness with increase in doping then implies reduction in the magnitude of effective Coulomb repulsion between the mobile carriers. This leads to an enhanced possibility of fermionic pairing with increase in doping in the possible presence of some other attraction producing mechanism from a source outside the t-J-like models. Moreover, under certain conditions in the weakly correlated phase, the t-J-like models themselves are able to produce attractive interaction for pairing.

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arXiv2017

Effective interaction in a non-Fermi liquid conductor and spin correlations in under-doped cuprates

The effective interaction between the itinerant spin degrees of freedom in the paramagnetic phases of hole doped quantum Heisenberg antiferromagnets is investigated theoretically, based on the single-band t-J model on 1D lattice, at zero temperature. The effective spin-spin interaction for this model in the strong correlation limit, is studied in terms of the generalized spin stiffness constant as a function of doping concentration. The plot of this generalized spin stiffness constant against doping shows a very high value of stiffness in the vicinity of zero doping and a very sharp fall with increase in doping concentration, signifying the rapid decay of original coupling of semi-localized spins in the system. Quite interestingly, this plot also shows a maximum occurring at a finite value of doping, which strongly suggests the tendency of the itinerant spins to couple again in the unconventional paramagnetic phase. As the doping is further increased, this new coupling is also suppressed and the spin response becomes analogous to almost Pauli-like. The last two predictions of ours are quite novel and may be directly tested by independent experiments and computational techniques in future. Our results in general receive good support from other theoretical works and experimental results extracted from the chains of YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{6+x}$.

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arXiv2016

Calculation of generalized spin stiffness constant of strongly correlated doped quantum antiferromagnet on two-dimensional lattice and it's application to effective exchange constant for semi-itinerant systems

The generalized spin stiffness constant for a doped quantum antiferromagnet has been investigated both analytically and numerically as a function of doping concentration at zero temperature, based on the strongly correlated t-J model on two-dimensional square lattice. The nature of the theoretical dependence of the stiffness constant on doping shows a striking similarity with that of the effective exchange constant, obtained from the combination of other theoretical and experimental techniques in the low doping region. This correspondence once again establishes that spin stiffness can very well play the role of an effective exchange constant even in the strongly correlated semi-itinerant systems. Our theoretical plot of the stiffness constant against doping concentration in the whole doping region exhibits the various characteristic features like a possible crossover in the higher doping regions and persistence of short range ordering even for very high doping with the complete vanishing of spin stiffness occurring only close to 100% doping. Our results receive very good support from various other theoretical approaches and also brings out a few limitations of some of them. Our detailed analysis highlights the crucial importance of the study of spin stiffness for the proper understanding of magnetic correlations in a semi-itinerant magnetic system described by the strongly correlated t-J model. Moreover, our basic formalism can also be utilized for determination of the effective exchange constant and magnetic correlations for itinerant magnetic systems, in general in a novel way.

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