Seminar “Engineered Swift equilibration of an harmonic oscillator”
Date
Thursday, 20 October 2016
Time
12:00 am
Place
University of Barcelona
Faculty of Physics Building
Room 3.20, 3rd floor
Speaker
Dr Anne Le Cunuder, École Normale Supérieure (France)
Abstract
If one suddenly changes the equilibrium position of an harmonic oscillator, applying a force for example, the system needs a certain time to reach its new equilibrium state. During this transcient regime, the system oscillates with a progressively decreasing amplitude until the system returns to equilibrium. The relaxation time is an intrinsic property of the system. However, we show that applying an appropriate time dependent force, we decrease the time necessary to reach equilibrium by two orders of magnitude.
