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Type: 
Journal
Description: 
We investigate the dynamics of a central spin that is coupled to a bath of spins through a non-uniform distribution of coupling constants. Simple analytical arguments based on master equation techniques as well as numerical simulations of the full von Neumann equation of the total system show that the short-time damping and decoherence behaviour of the central spin can be modelled accurately through an effective Hamiltonian involving a single effective coupling constant. The reduced short-time dynamics of the central spin is thus reproduced by an analytically solvable effective Hamiltonian model.
Publisher: 
IOP Publishing
Publication date: 
30 Sep 2010
Authors: 

E Ferraro, HP Breuer, A Napoli, A Messina

Biblio References: 
Volume: 2010 Issue: T140 Pages: 014021
Origin: 
Physica Scripta