Harvard Quantum Initiative Special Seminar
Tuesday, January 8
1:00 PM
Jefferson 250
Oles Shtanko, MIT
Title: Quasi-viscous effects in open quantum systems
Abstract: In quantum transport problems, thermal environment plays an important role. We
demonstrate that additionally to suppressing quantum transport due to dephasing, the
environment is able to induce new dynamic effects absent in an isolated system. In
particular, we show that non-interacting particles in presence of stochastic environment
may exhibit formation of vortices and Poiseuille flow, the effects similar to commonly
considered signatures of hydrodynamic behavior. We provide a detailed analysis of the
phenomenon and derive the equations for quasi-viscous flow. The environmentally induced
quantum quasi-viscosity suggests new possible transport regimes accessible in solid-state
devices, cold atomic systems, and photonic quantum simulators.
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Clare Ploucha
Administrative Program Manager
Max Planck/Harvard Research Center for Quantum Optics
Department of Physics
17 Oxford Street, Jefferson 357
Cambridge, MA 02138
P: 617-495-3388
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