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Bath Assisted Cooling of Spins

A. E. Allahverdyan, R. Serral Gracia, Th. M. Nieuwenhuizen

abstract: A suitable sequence of sharp pulses applied to a spin coupled to a bosonic bath can cool its state, i.e., increase its polarization or ground state occupation probability. Starting from an unpolarized state of the spin in equilibrium with the bath, one can reach very low temperatures or sizeable polarizations within a time shorter than the decoherence time. Both the bath and external fields are necessary for the effect which comes from the backreaction of the spin on the bath. This method can be applied to cool at once a disordered ensemble of spins. Since the bath is crucial for this mechanism, the cooling limits are set by the strength of its interaction with the spin(s).

oai_identifier:
oai:arXiv.org:quant-ph/0411138
categories:
quant-ph cond-mat.other
comments:
4 pages. Accepted in PRL
doi:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.260404
arxiv_id:
quant-ph/0411138
created:
2004-11-18

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