Phase transitions in dissipative quantum transport and mesoscopic nuclear spin pumping

Topological phase transitions can occur in the dissipative dynamics of a quantum system when the ratio of matrix elements for competing transport channels is varied. Here we establish a relation between such behavior in a class of non-Hermitian quantum walk problems [M. S. Rudner and L. S. Levitov,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Rudner, M. S., Levitov, Leonid
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Physical Society 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/60893
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4268-731X