Abstract

We investigate the dynamics of a two-level system in the presence of an overall environment composed of two layers. The first layer is just one single-mode cavity that decays to a memoryless reservoir while the second layer is two coupled single-mode cavities that decay to memoryless or memory-keeping reservoirs. We show that, in the weak-coupling regime between the qubit and the first-layer environment, the speed of evolution for the system can be controlled to a speeded-up or speeded-down process by manipulating the coupling strength in a double-layer environment. In particular, we find that multiple dynamics transitions from a not-speeded-up evolution to speeded-up evolution can be realized for the system by increasing the coupling strength in the second-layer environment. These results hold independently of the nature of the reservoirs in the second-layer environment.

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