Persistent currents by reservoir engineering
arXiv:1809.02964 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.98.053812
Abstract
We demonstrate that persistent currents can be induced in a quantum system in contact with a structured reservoir, without the need of any applied gauge field. The working principle of the mechanism leading to their presence is based on the extension to the many-body scenario of non-reciprocal Lindblad dynamics, recently put forward by Metelmann and Clerk in Phys. Rev. X 5, 021025 (2015): Non-reciprocity can be generated by suitably balancing coherent interactions with their corresponding dissipative version, induced by the coupling to a common structured environment, such to make total interactions directional. Specifically, we consider an interacting spin/boson model in a ring-shaped one-dimensional lattice coupled to an external bath. By employing a combination of cluster mean-field, exact diagonalization and matrix-product-operator techniques, we show that solely dissipative effects suffice to engineer steady states with a persistent current that survives in the limit of large systems. We also verify the robustness of such current in the presence of additional dissipative or Hamiltonian perturbation terms.
arXiv comment10 pages, 7 figures; published version
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