Quantum dynamics of the small-polaron formation in a superconducting analog simulator
arXiv:1904.11241 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.99.134308
Abstract
We propose a scheme for investigating the nonequilibrium aspects of small-polaron physics using an array of superconducting qubits and microwave resonators. This system, which can be realized with transmon or gatemon qubits, serves as an analog simulator for a lattice model describing a nonlocal coupling of a quantum particle (excitation) to dispersionless phonons. We study its dynamics following an excitation-phonon (qubit-resonator) interaction quench using a numerically exact approach based on a Chebyshev-moment expansion of the time-evolution operator of the system. We thereby glean heretofore unavailable insights into the process of the small-polaron formation resulting from strongly momentum-dependent excitation-phonon interactions, most prominently about its inherent dynamical timescale. To further characterize this complex process, we evaluate the excitation-phonon entanglement entropy and show that initially prepared bare-excitation Bloch states here dynamically evolve into small-polaron states that are close to being maximally entangled. Finally, by computing the dynamical variances of the phonon position and momentum quadratures, we demonstrate a pronounced non-Gaussian character of the latter states, with a strong antisqueezing in both quadratures.
arXiv commentProject started in 2016, completed -- after a long interruption -- in 2018
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