Dissipation-induced structural instability and chiral dynamics in a quantum gas

Dissipative and unitary processes define the evolution of a many-body system. Their interplay gives rise to dynamical phase transitions and can lead to instabilities. In this study, we observe a nonstationary state of chiral nature in a synthetic many-body system with independently controllable unitary and dissipative couplings. Our experiment is based on a spinor Bose gas interacting with an optical resonator. Orthogonal quadratures of the resonator field coherently couple the Bose-Einstein condensate to two different atomic spatial modes, whereas the dispersive effect of the resonator losses mediates a dissipative coupling between these modes. In a regime of dominant dissipative coupling, we observe the chiral evolution and relate it to a positional instability.

FINDING NONSTATIONARY STATE PROBABILITIES OF OPEN MARKOV NETWORKS WITH MULTIPLE CLASSES OF CUSTOMERS AND VARIOUS FEATURES

This paper discusses a system of difference-differential equations (DDE) that is satisfied by the time-dependent state probabilities of open Markov queueing networks with various features. The number of network states in this case and the number of equations in this system is infinite. Flows of customers arriving at the network are a simple and independent, the time of customer services is exponentially distributed. The intensities of transitions between the network states are deterministic functions depending on its states.To solve the system of DDE, we propose a modified method of successive approximations, combined with the method of series. The convergence of successive approximations with time to a stationary probability distribution, the form of which is indicated in the paper has been proved. The sequence of approximations converges to a unique solution of the system of equations. Any successive approximation can be represented as a convergent power series with an infinite radius of convergence, the coefficients of which satisfy recurrence relations, which is convenient for calculations on a computer. Examples of the analysis of Markov G-networks with various features have been presented.

Energy-dependent point interaction: Self-adjointness

Recently, we constructed an energy-dependent point interaction (EDPI) in its most general form in one-dimensional quantum mechanics. In this paper, we show that stationary solutions of the Schrodinger equation with the EDPI form a complete set. Then any nonstationary solution of the time-dependent Schrodinger equation can be expressed as a linear combination of stationary solutions. This, however, does not necessarily mean that the EDPI is self-adjoint and the time-development of the nonstationary state is unitary. The EDPI is self-adjoint provided that the stationary solutions are all orthogonal to one another. We illustrate situations in which this orthogonality condition is not satisfied.PACS Nos.: 03.65.–w, 03.65.Nk, 03.65.Ge