%0 Journal Article %J Physical Review Letters %D 2017 %T A solvable family of driven-dissipative many-body systems %A Michael Foss-Feig %A Jeremy T. Young %A Victor V. Albert %A Alexey V. Gorshkov %A Mohammad F. Maghrebi %X
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.
%B Physical Review Letters %V 119 %8 2017/11/10 %G eng %U https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.04626 %N 19 %R 10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.190402