Continuous and time-discrete non-Markovian system-reservoir interactions: Dissipative coherent quantum feedback in Liouville space (2011.05071v2)

Abstract: Based on tensor network realizations of path integrals reducing exponential memory scaling to polynomial efficiency and a Liouville space implementation of a time-discrete quantum memory, we investigate a quantum system simultaneously exposed to two structured reservoirs. For this purpose, we employ a numerically exact quasi-2D tensor network combining both diagonal and off-diagonal system-reservoir interactions with a twofold memory for continuous and discrete retardation effects. As a possible example, we study the non-Markovian dynamical interplay between discrete photonic feedback and structured acoustic phonon modes, resulting in emerging inter-reservoir correlations and long-living population trapping within an initially-excited two-level system.