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Dissipative generation of currents by nonreciprocal local and global environments

Catalin-Mihai Halati*

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Phys. Rev. Research 8, 033174 – Published 11 August, 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/v948-zwcd

Abstract

We investigate the mechanisms necessary for the stabilization of complex quantum correlations by exploring dissipative couplings to nonreciprocal reservoirs. We analyze the role of locality in the coupling between the environment and the quantum system of interest, as we consider either local couplings throughout the system or a single global coupling. We contrast the results obtained for the two scenarios in which a chain of strongly interacting hard-core bosonic atoms is coupled directly to Markovian kinetic dissipative processes or experiences effective dissipation through the mediation of the field of a lossy optical cavity. To investigate the dissipative dynamics of the many-body quantum systems considered, we perform numerical simulations employing matrix product state methods. We show that by coupling atomic tunneling terms to the global field of a dissipative cavity we can stabilize at long times both finite currents and current-current correlations throughout the atomic chain. This is in contrast to the setup in which dissipation acts directly via local tunneling processes, where currents arise in a narrow region of the system and the current-current correlations are rapidly decaying.

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Phys. Rev. Research 8, 033174– Published 11 August, 2026
  • Received 15 October 2025
  • Accepted 16 July 2026
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