Research on the Dynamics of Cold Atoms Under Non-Equilibrium Dissipation

Abstract

We investigate the dissipative dynamics of a one-dimensional sawtooth-shaped Bose–Hubbard model subjected to an external magnetic flux and staggered single-particle dissipation. By combining the Lindblad master equation with a mean-field decoupling and further reducing the dynamics to an effective three-site model, we derive the nonlinear evolution equations that govern the system. Our results reveal that the magnetic flux, acting through the next-nearest-neighbor hopping, determines the preferential direction of particle flow, while the imbalance in dissipation forces the steady-state population to accumulate at lattice sites with weaker loss. Furthermore, we find that two-particle dissipation accelerates the relaxation process when it becomes negative (i.e., gain), whereas positive two-particle loss suppresses localization. These findings demonstrate that directional localization and relaxation dynamics can be controlled by the sign of the next-nearest-neighbor hopping t′ and the magnetic phase, providing a tunable scheme for engineering dissipative quantum states in optical lattices.