title: Conservative chaotic map as a model of quantum many-body environment.
abstract: We study the dynamics of the entanglement between two qubits coupled to a common chaotic environment, described by the quantum kicked rotator model. We show that the kicked rotator, which is a single-particle deterministic dynamical system, can reproduce the effects of a pure dephasing many-body bath. Indeed, in the semiclassical limit the interaction with the kicked rotator can be described as a random phase kick, so that decoherence is induced in the two-qubit system. We also show that our model can efficiently simulate non-Markovian environments.
authors.affiliation: NEST-CNR-INFM and Scuola Normale Superiore, Piazza dei Cavalieri 7, I-56126 Pisa, Italy. d.rossini@sns.it
authors.forename: Davide
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Rossini
authors.forename: Giuliano
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Benenti
authors.forename: Giulio
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Casati