Dissipation-assisted coherence formation in a spinor quantum gas

Abstract

Dissipation affects all real-world physical systems and often induces energy or particle loss, limiting the efficiency of processes. Dissipation can also lead to the formation of dissipative structures or induce quantum decoherence. Quantum decoherence and dissipation are critical for quantum information processing. On the one hand, such effects can make achieving quantum computation much harder, but on the other hand, dissipation can promote quantum coherence and offer control over the system. It is the latter avenue -- how dissipation can be exploited to promote coherence in a quantum system -- that is explored in this work. We report the exploration of dissipation in a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) of spin-2 87Rb atoms. Through experiments and numerical simulations, we show that spin-dependent particle dissipation can give rise to quantum coherence and lead to the spontaneous formation of a magnetic eigenstate. Although the interactions between the atomic spins are not ferromagnetic, the spin-dependent dissipation enhances the synchronization of the relative phases among five magnetic sublevels, and this effects promotes magnetization.

arXiv comment7 pages, 5figures

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