TY - JOUR T1 - A solvable family of driven-dissipative many-body systems JF - Physical Review Letters Y1 - 2017 A1 - Michael Foss-Feig A1 - Jeremy T. Young A1 - Victor V. Albert A1 - Alexey V. Gorshkov A1 - Mohammad F. Maghrebi AB -

Exactly solvable models have played an important role in establishing the sophisticated modern understanding of equilibrium many-body physics. And conversely, the relative scarcity of solutions for non-equilibrium models greatly limits our understanding of systems away from thermal equilibrium. We study a family of nonequilibrium models, some of which can be viewed as dissipative analogues of the transverse-field Ising model, in that an effectively classical Hamiltonian is frustrated by dissipative processes that drive the system toward states that do not commute with the Hamiltonian. Surprisingly, a broad and experimentally relevant subset of these models can be solved efficiently in any number of spatial dimensions. We leverage these solutions to prove a no-go theorem on steady-state phase transitions in a many-body model that can be realized naturally with Rydberg atoms or trapped ions, and to compute the effects of decoherence on a canonical trapped-ion-based quantum computation architecture.

VL - 119 UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.04626 CP - 19 U5 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.190402 ER -