Synchronization effects in a periodically driven two-level system




Settimo, Federico; Vacchini, Bassano

PublisherAmerican Physical Society (APS)

2026

 Physical Review A

022213

113

2

2469-9926

2469-9934

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1103/cswq-l3c8

https://doi.org/10.1103/cswq-l3c8

https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.04339



We study phase synchronization in a driven two-level system coupled to a non-Markovian bosonic reservoir. The dynamics is described by treating the system-bath coupling and the coherent drive without invoking the rotating-wave approximation, and simulated using the numerically exact hierarchical equations of motion. We observe that a robust phase locking develops and that the corresponding synchronization measure rapidly acquires a finite value when the system is tuned to what we identify as a resonant-ratio condition, namely, when the ratio between the drive amplitude and its frequency coincides with a zero of the Bessel function J0. We provide an explanation for this phenomenon by means of a static approximation derived from a Fourier analysis of the periodically driven Hamiltonian.



F.S. acknowledges support from Magnus Ehrnroothin Saeaetioe. B.V. acknowledges support from MUR and Next Generation EU via the PRIN 2022 Project "Quantum Reservoir Computing (QuReCo) " (Contract No. 2022FEXLYB) and the NQSTI-Spoke1-BaC project QuSynKrono (Contract No. PE00000023-QuSynKrono) .


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