Finite temperature dynamics in a polarized sub-Ohmic heat bath: a hierarchical equations of motion-tensor train study

Abstract

Dynamics of the sub-Ohmic spin-boson model under polarized initial conditions at finite temperature is investigated by employing both analytical tools and the numerically accurate hierarchical equations of motion-tensor train method. By analyzing the features of nonequilibrium dynamics, we discovered a bifurcation phenomenon which separates two regimes of the dynamics. It is found that before the bifurcation time, increasing temperature slows down the population dynamics, while the opposite effect occurs after the bifurcation time. The dynamics is highly sensitive to both initial preparation of the bath and thermal effects.