Browsing by Author "Triana, Johan F."

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    Influence of Non-Markavian Dynamics in Thermal-Equilibrium Uncertainty-Relations
    (2017-07-08) Triana, Johan F.; Pachón, Leonardo Augusto; Brumer, Paul
    Contrary to the conventional wisdom that deviations from standard thermodynamics originate from the strong coupling to the bath, it is shown that in quantum mechanics, these deviations originate from the uncertainty principle and are supported by the non-Markovian character of the dynamics. Specifically, it is shown that the lower bound of the dispersion of the total energy of the system, imposed by the uncertainty principle, is dominated by the bath power spectrum and therefore, quantum mechanics inhibits the system thermal-equilibrium-state from being described by the canonical Boltzmann's distribution. We show that for a wide class of systems, systems interacting via central forces with pairwise-self-interacting environments, this general observation is in sharp contrast to the classical case, for which the thermal equilibrium distribution, irrespective of the interaction strength, is exactly characterized by the canonical Boltzmann distribution and therefore, no dependence on the bath power spectrum is present. We define an effective coupling to the environment that depends on all energy scales in the system and reservoir interaction. Sample computations in regimes predicted by this effective coupling are demonstrated. For example, for the case of strong effective coupling, deviations from standard thermodynamics are present and, for the case of weak effective coupling, quantum features such as stationary entanglement are possible at high temperatures.
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    Ultrafast Optimal Sideband Cooling under Non-Markovian Evolution
    (2017-03-03) Triana, Johan F.; Estrada, Andrés F.; Pachón, Leonardo Augusto
    A sideband cooling strategy that incorporates () the dynamics induced by structured (non-Markovian) environments in the target and auxiliary systems and (ii) the optimally time-modulated interaction between them is developed. For the context of cavity optomechanics, when non-Markovian dynamics are considered in the target system, ground state cooling is reached at much faster rates and at a much lower phonon occupation number than previously reported. In contrast to similar current strategies, ground state cooling is reached here for coupling-strength rates that are experimentally accessible for the state-of the-art implementations. After the ultrafast optimal-ground-state- cooling protocol is accomplished, an additional optimal control strategy is considered to maintain the phonon number as close as possible to the one obtained in the cooling procedure. Contrary to the conventional expectation, when non-Markovian dynamics are considered in the auxiliary system, the cfficiency of the cooling protocol is undermined.
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    Uncertainty Principle Consequences at Thermal Equilibrium
    (2013-05-02) Pachón, Leonardo Augusto; Triana, Johan F.; Zueco, David; Brumer, Paul
    Contrary to the conventional wisdom that deviations from standard thermodynamics originate from the strong coupling to the bath, it is shown that these deviations are intimately linked to the power spectrum of the thermal bath. Specifically, it is shown that the lower bound of the dispersion of the total energy of the system, imposed by the uncertainty principle, is dominated by the bath power spectrum and therefore, quantum mechanics inhibits the system thermal-equilibriun-state from being described by the canonical Boltzrhann's distribution. This is in sharp contrast to the classical case, for which the thermal equilibrium distribution of a system interacting via central forces with pairwise-self-interacting environment, irrespective of the interaction strength, is shown to be eractly characterized by the canonical Boltzmann distribution. As a consequence of this analysis we define an effective coupling to the environment that depends on all energy scales in the system and reservoir interaction. Sample computations in regimes predicted by this effective coupling are demonstrated. For example, for the case of strong effective coupling, deviations from standard thermodynamics are present and, for the case of weak effective coupling, quantum features such as stationary entanglement are possible at high temperatures.