Survival Probability and Survival Collapse in a linear spin chain

E. RUFEIL FIORI; H. M. PASTAWSKI

Córdoba

Congreso; Quantum symposium. Time of Challenges: Harnessing the Uncertainties of the Quantum World; 2005

Universidad Nacional de Cordoba.

The evolution of a surface excitation in a two dimentional model is analyzed. I) It starts quadratically up to a spreading time t_{S}. II) It follows an exponential behavior governed by a self-consistent Fermi Golden Rule. III) At longer times, the exponential is overrun by an inverse power law describing return processes governed by quantum diffusion. At this last transition time t_{R} a survival collapse becomes possible, bringing the survival probability down by several orders of magnitude. We identify this strongly destructive interference as an antiresonance in the time domain.