Universal secular form of non-secular master equation

2017/10/05 by Ho, Le Tuan Anh, Chibotaru, Liviu F.
#FOS: Physical sciences #Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci) #Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1710.02053

Abstract

We develop a more accurate secular form for the Redfield non-secular master equation, which is insensitive to the choice of the basis. This completely solves the ambiguity on which basis should be used when the secular approximation of the Redfield master equation is applied.

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