Hybrid phase-space simulation method for interacting Bose fields
Hybrid phase-space simulation method for interacting Bose fields
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相互作用玻色场的混合相空间模拟方法
DOI:
10.1103/physreva.78.013622
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发表时间:
2008
影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
P. Drummond
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作者:
S. Hoffmann;J. Corney;P. Drummond
We introduce an approximate phase-space technique to simulate the quantum dynamics of interacting bosons. With the future goal of treating Bose-Einstein condensate systems, the method is designed for systems with a natural separation into highly occupied (condensed) modes and lightly occupied modes. The method self-consistently uses the Wigner representation to treat highly occupied modes and the positive-P representation for lightly occupied modes. In this method, truncation of higher-derivative terms from the Fokker-Planck equation is usually necessary. However, at least in the cases investigated here, the resulting systematic error, over a finite time, vanishes in the limit of large Wigner occupation numbers. We tested the method on a system of two interacting anharmonic oscillators, with high and low occupations, respectively. The hybrid method successfully predicted atomic quadratures to a useful simulation time 60 times longer than that of the positive-P method. The truncated Wigner method also performed well in this test. For the prediction of the correlation in a quantum nondemolition measurement scheme, for this same system, the hybrid method gave excellent agreement with the exact result, while the truncated Wigner method showed a large systematic error.