
[Original paper]
Non-adiabatic relaxation process that lies behind the adiabatic relaxation of dressed-photon–phonon transfer
M. Ohtsu, E. Segawa, K. Yuki, and S. Saito
keywords:
dressed photon, phonon, quantum walk, random walk, energy transfer
Abstract
This paper reports the results of numerical calculations based on a quantum walk (QW) model in order to analyze the temporal behavior of the dressed-photon–phonon (DPP) transfer. Since a random walk (RW) process lies behind the QW process, the time evolution operator of the interpolation model is used by introducing a probability p. The results reveal that: The crossover time xt decreases with increasing p and /Jχ (the ratio between the DP hopping energy Jand the DP-phonon coupling energy χ). In contrast, th slope RWS of the curve for the RW process increases. The slope QWS of the curve for the QW process increases with increasing /Jχ, which indicates that a part of the adiabatic relaxion energy is apt to be spontaneously converted to the non-adiabatic relaxation energy. In the case of /1Jχ=, the nutation cycle is long and the slopes are small, which is advantageous for operating novel nanometer-sized devices.